Regional climate response to solar-radiation management

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 537-541

  Ricke, Katharine L ^a   Morgan, M Granger ^a   Allen, Myles R ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GREENHOUSE GAS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; INDIA;

EID: 77955212168     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo915     Document Type: Article

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