Can aerosol loading explain the solar dimming over the Tibetan Plateau?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Kun ^a   Ding, Baohong ^a,b   Qin, Jun ^a   Tang, Wenjun ^a   Lu, Ning ^c   Lin, Changgui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; VAPORS;

AEROSOL LOADING; CLOUD COVER; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; DECADAL CHANGE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOTAL CLOUD COVER;

LOADING;

EID: 84868332209     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053733     Document Type: Article

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