Aerosol size confines climate response to volcanic super-eruptions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Timmreck, Claudia ^a   Graf, Hans F ^b   Lorenz, Stephan J ^a   Niemeier, Ulrike ^a   Zanchettin, Davide ^a   Matei, Daniela ^a   Jungclaus, Johann H ^a   Crowley, Thomas J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; VOLCANOES;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL SIZE; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CLIMATE EFFECTS; COLLISION RATE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; KEY PROCESS; LARGER PARTICLE SIZES; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; MIDLATITUDES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; EXTINCTION; FALLOUT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION BUDGET; SULFATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 78650899956     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045464     Document Type: Article

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