Dust vertical profile impact on global radiative forcing estimation using a coupled chemical-transport-radiative-transfer model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7097-7114

  Zhang, L ^a,b,c   Li, Q B ^a,b   Gu, Y ^a,b   Liou, K N ^a,b   Meland, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING;

GOBI DESERT; SAHARA;

EID: 84889637303     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-7097-2013     Document Type: Article

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