Using a global climate model to evaluate the influences of water vapor, snow cover and atmospheric aerosol on warming in the Tibetan Plateau during the twenty-first century

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 859-872

  Rangwala, Imtiaz ^a   Miller, James R ^a   Russell, Gary L ^b   Xu, Ming ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Downward longwave; Global climate model; High elevation; Specific humidity; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77951880703     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0564-1     Document Type: Article

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