Contribution of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols to the changing Euro-Mediterranean climate since 1980

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5605-5611

  Nabat, Pierre ^a   Somot, Samuel ^a   Mallet, Marc ^b   Sanchez Lorenzo, Arturo ^c   Wild, Martin ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

aerosols; brightening; climate change; Europe; Mediterranean; sulfates

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; SUN; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

BRIGHTENING; EUROPE; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SULFATES; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND SURFACE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SULFATE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84905319619     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060798     Document Type: Article

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