Modeling the stratospheric warming following the Mt. Pinatubo eruption: Uncertainties in aerosol extinctions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 11221-11234

  Arfeuille, F ^a,b   Luo, B P ^a   Heckendorn, P ^a   Weisenstein, D ^c   Sheng, J X ^a   Rozanov, E ^a,d   Schraner, M ^e   Bronnimann S ^b   Thomason, L W ^f   Peter, T ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^e FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WARMING; WAVELENGTH;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84888033440     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-11221-2013     Document Type: Article

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