Interannual tropospheric aerosol variability in the late twentieth century and its impact on tropical atlantic and west african climate by direct and semidirect effects

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8031-8056

  Mahajan, Salil ^a   Evans, Katherine J ^a   Truesdale, John E ^b   Hack, James J ^a   Lamarque, Jean françois ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate models; Climate variability; Interannual variability; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MODELS; CARBONACEOUS AEROSOL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DATA SETS; DIABATIC HEATING; DUST AEROSOLS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; GULF OF GUINEA; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SLAB OCEAN MODELS; SPRING SEASON; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE EMISSIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL VARIABILITY; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE GASES; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; DIABATIC PROCESS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); GULF OF GUINEA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84871757059     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00029.1     Document Type: Article

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