Aerosol and cloud effects on solar brightening and the recent rapid warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Ruckstuhl, Christian ^a   Philipona, Rolf ^b   Behrens, Klaus ^c   Coen, Martine Collaud ^b   Dürr, Bruno ^b   Heimo, Alain ^b   Mätzler, Christian ^d   Nyeki, Stephan ^e   Ohmura, Atsumu ^a   Vuilleumier, Laurent ^b   Weller, Michael ^c   Wehrli, Christoph ^e   Zelenka, Antoine ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROS OL EFFECT; CLOUD EFFECTS; SOLAR BRIGHTENING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; OPTICAL DEPTH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 50849136519     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034228     Document Type: Article

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