Contribution of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols to the twentieth century weakening of the South Asian Monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 680-687

  Bollasina, Massimo A ^a,b   Ming, Yi ^c   Ramaswamy, V ^c   Schwarzkopf, M Daniel ^c   Naik, Vaishali ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic Aerosols; Local and remote sources; South Asian Monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; NEAR-SURFACE CIRCULATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REMOTE SOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84892991450     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058183     Document Type: Article

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