Tropical tropospheric-only responses to absorbing aerosols

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2471-2480

  Persad, Geeta G ^a   Ming, Yi ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate models; Cloud forcing; Cloud parameterizations; Clouds; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BLACK CARBON; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD REFLECTION; CUMULUS CLOUD; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EARTH'S CLIMATE; FREE TROPOSPHERE; GAIN INSIGHT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICALLY BASED; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE HEATING; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; TROPICS;

TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BLACK CARBON; CLOUD COVER; CUMULUS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84859345608     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00122.1     Document Type: Article

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