The role of mineral-dust aerosols in polar temperature amplification

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 487-491

  Lambert, F ^a   Kug, J S ^a   Park, R J ^b   Mahowald, N ^c   Winckler, G ^d   Abe Ouchi, A ^e   O'Ishi, R ^e   Takemura, T ^f   Lee, J H ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; MINERAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; POLAR REGION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SULFATE;

EID: 84877039626     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1785     Document Type: Article

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