How shorter black carbon lifetime alters its climate effect

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hodnebrog, Øivind ^a   Myhre, Gunnar ^a   Samset, Bjørn H ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

AEROSOL; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84911892467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6065     Document Type: Article

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