Black-carbon reduction of snow albedo

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 437-440

  Hadley, Odelle L ^a   Kirchstetter, Thomas W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LABORATORY METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW;

EID: 84861581177     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1433     Document Type: Article

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