Consistent estimates from satellites and models for the first aerosol indirect forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Penner, Joyce E ^a   Zhou, Cheng ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; INDUSTRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANALYSIS METHOD; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; PRE-INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

ESTIMATION;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84864075387     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051870     Document Type: Article

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