Delay in the onset of South Asian summer monsoon induced by local black carbon in an AGCM

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 529-536

  Mahmood, Rashed ^a,b,c   Li, Shuanglin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BLACK CARBON; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ARABIAN SEA; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84873160302     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0681-3     Document Type: Article

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