Investigations on direct and indirect effect of nitrate on temperature and precipitation in China using a regional climate chemistry modeling system

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Tijian ^a   Li, Shu ^a   Shen, Yi ^a   Deng, Junjun ^a   Xie, Min ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NITRATES;

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ATMOSPHERE CHEMISTRY MODEL; CARBONACEOUS AEROSOL; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; CHEMISTRY MODELING; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; COLUMN BURDENS; COMBINED EFFECT; COUPLED MODELING; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INDIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; INORGANIC AEROSOL; MODELING RESULTS; NITRATE AEROSOLS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION IN CHINA; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; STRONG NONLINEARITY; SUBMODELS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; NITRATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA;

EID: 78049407961     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013264     Document Type: Article

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