What governs the spread in shortwave forcings in the transient IPCC AR4 models?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Storelvmo, T ^a   Lohmann, U ^a   Bennartz, R ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECTS; AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATIONS; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBERS; FORCING AGENTS; FORCINGS; OCEAN MODELS; TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD DROPLET; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); RADIATIVE FORCING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 62749189133     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036069     Document Type: Article

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