Global impact of smoke aerosols from landscape fires on climate and the Hadley circulation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5227-5241

  Tosca, M G ^a,b   Randerson, J T ^a   Zender, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR TEMPERATURE; BLACK CARBON; FIRE; HADLEY CELL; HEATING; OPTICAL DEPTH; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPOSPHERE;

ARICA; ARICA AND PARINACOTA; ASIA; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84884731384     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-5227-2013     Document Type: Article

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