Using a global aerosol model adjoint to unravel the footprint of spatially-distributed emissions on cloud droplet number and cloud albedo

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Karydis, V A ^a   Capps, S L ^b   Moore, R H ^c   Russell, A G ^b   Henze, D K ^d   Nenes, A ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; SOLAR RADIATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADJOINTS; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CLOUD DROPLETS; GLOBAL AEROSOL; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; LOCAL EMISSIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC AEROSOL;

DROPS;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; AMMONIA; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD DROPLET; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871566543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053346     Document Type: Article

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