Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedos and associated CO2 offsets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Menon, Surabi ^a   Akbari, Hashem ^a,c   Mahanama, Sarith ^b   Sednev, Igor ^a   Levinson, Ronnen ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Radiative forcing; Urban albedo

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATCHMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PAVEMENTS; ROOFS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TROPICAL REGIONS; URBAN ALBEDO;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77950656112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014005     Document Type: Article

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