Dust aerosol important for snowball earth deglaciation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4121-4132

  Abbot, Dorian S ^a   Halevy, Itay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BASIS OF CALCULATION; BOX MODELS; DEGLACIATIONS; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST ENTRAINMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SNOWBALL EARTH; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGLACIATION; DUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 77958113093     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3378.1     Document Type: Article

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