Asymmetric forcing from stratospheric aerosols impacts Sahelian rainfall

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 660-665

  Haywood, Jim M ^a,b   Jones, Andy ^a   Bellouin, Nicolas ^a,c   Stephenson, David ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DROUGHT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFALL; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VULNERABILITY;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84879759950     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1857     Document Type: Article

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