Effects of radiative forcing by black carbon aerosol on spring rainfall decrease over Southeast Asia

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 3739-3744

  Lee, Woo Seop ^a   Kim, Maeng Ki ^a  

^a Kongju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atmospheric heating; BC aerosol; Southeast Asia; Spring precipitation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; AEROSOL FORCING; AEROSOL LAYERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; BC AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; BOREAL SPRING; FINITE-VOLUME; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOCAL EMISSIONS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OZONE CHEMISTRY; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RAINFALL TRENDS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPRING PRECIPITATION; TRANSPORT MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FOG; HEATING; NASA; OZONE; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN; SUN; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

BLACK CARBON; RAIN;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; BOREAL FOREST; BOUNDARY LAYER; EMISSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OZONE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; RAINFALL; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; FIELD EMISSION; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPRING;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 77955845763     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.058     Document Type: Article

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