The climatic effects of modifying cirrus clouds in a climate engineering framework

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4174-4191

  Muri, H ^a   Kristjansson J E ^a   Storelvmo, T ^b   Pfeffer, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84910664400     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021063     Document Type: Article

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