Brown carbon in the continental troposphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2191-2195

  Liu, Jiumeng ^a,b   Scheuer, Eric ^c   Dibb, Jack ^c   Ziemba, Luke D ^d   Thornhill, Kenneth L ^d   Anderson, Bruce E ^d   Wisthaler, Armin ^e   Mikoviny, Tomas ^f   Devi, J Jai ^g   Bergin, Michael ^g   Weber, Rodney J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Universitatet Innsbruck   (Austria)

^f OakRidge Universities   (United States)

^g Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol light absorption; brown carbon; direct radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON; LIGHT ABSORPTION; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL LIGHT ABSORPTION; BROWN CARBONS; DIRECT AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; PARTICULATE FILTERS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TROPOSPHERIC COLUMNS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BIOMASS BURNING; BLACK CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896411944     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058976     Document Type: Article

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