Sensitivity of the total anthropogenic aerosol effect to the treatment of rain in a global climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Posselt, Rebekka ^a,b   Lohmann, Ulrike ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DROPS;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; AUTOCONVERSION; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RAIN DROPS; TIME STEPS;

RAIN;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RAINDROP; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 62749126696     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035796     Document Type: Article

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