Decreased monsoon precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere due to anthropogenic aerosols

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6023-6029

  Polson, D ^a   Bollasina, M ^a   Hegerl, G C ^a   Wilcox, L J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84905999794     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060811     Document Type: Article

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