Modeling Saharan desert dust radiative effects on clouds

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 127, Issue , 2013, Pages 178-194

  Santos, D ^a   Costa, M J ^a   Silva, A M ^a   Salgado, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; Cloud and aerosol radiative effects; Global warming; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COOLING EFFECTS; DESERT DUST; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; REGIONAL SCALE; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STORMS;

DUST;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DESERT; DUST STORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PORTUGAL; SAHARA;

EID: 84876700251     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.09.024     Document Type: Article

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