Climatic responses to the shortwave and longwave direct radiative effects of sea salt aerosol in present day and the last glacial maximum

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3019-3040

  Yue, Xu ^a,b,c   Liao, Hong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic responses; Last glacial maximum; Radiative effect; Sea salt aerosol

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SALT; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84869489004     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1312-5     Document Type: Article

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