Impacts of aerosol-cloud interactions on past and future changes in tropospheric composition

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4115-4130

  Unger, N ^a,b   Menon, S ^c   Koch, D M ^a   Shindell, D T ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOUD; COUPLING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFATE; TROPOSPHERE; WET DEPOSITION;

EID: 77950213026     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-4115-2009     Document Type: Article

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