Contributions of natural and anthropogenic forcings to the summer cooling over eastern China: An AGCM study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Li, Lijuan ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

METEOROLOGY;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLOUD COVER; HADLEY CELL; JET STREAM; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 36549033326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030541     Document Type: Article

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