Pollution trends over Europe constrain global aerosol forcing as simulated by climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2176-2181

  Cherian, Ribu ^a   Quaas, Johannes ^a   Salzmann, Marc ^a   Wild, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMIP5; radiative forcing; solar brightening

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; SUN;

AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SOLAR BRIGHTENING; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE MODELING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84896406949     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058715     Document Type: Article

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