Climatic effects of air pollutants over china: A review

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-139

  Liao, Hong ^a   Chang, Wenyuan ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

aerosols; climate change; radiative forcing; tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913543540     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: 18619533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-0013-x     Document Type: Article

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