Long-term aerosol-mediated changes in cloud radiative forcing of deep clouds at the top and bottom of the atmosphere over the Southern Great Plains

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7113-7124

  Yan, Hongru ^a,b   Li, Zhanqing ^b,c   Huang, Jianping ^a   Cribb, Maureen ^b   Liu, Jianjun ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84904332778     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-7113-2014     Document Type: Article

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