Earlier onset of the Indian monsoon in the late twentieth century: The role of anthropogenic aerosols

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3715-3720

  Bollasina, Massimo A ^a,b   Ming, Yi ^b   Ramaswamy, V ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic aerosols; historical GCM experiments; Indian monsoon onset; twentieth century trend

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; INDIAN MONSOON; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMODYNAMIC CHANGES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; INDOCHINA;

EID: 84880641626     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50719     Document Type: Article

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