Potential impacts of Asian carbon aerosols on future US warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Teng, Haiyan ^a   Washington, Warren M ^a   Branstator, Grant ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Lamarque, Jean Francois ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS;

CARBON AEROSOLS; CARBONACEOUS AEROSOL; FULLY-COUPLED; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOLAR ABSORPTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ABSORBANCE; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862196894     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051723     Document Type: Article

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