Anthropogenic contribution to cloud condensation nuclei and the first aerosol indirect climate effect

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Fangqun ^a   Ma, Xiaoyan ^a   Luo, Gan ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol indirect radiative forcing; climate change; cloud condensation nuclei; global aerosol model; IPCC

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONDENSATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; GLOBAL AEROSOL; INDIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; IPCC;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROPLET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RADIATIVE FORCING; RESEARCH WORK; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84880902662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024029     Document Type: Article

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