Total volcanic stratospheric aerosol optical depths and implications for global climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7763-7769

  Ridley, D A ^a   Solomon, S ^b   Barnes, J E ^c   Burlakov, V D ^d   Deshler, T ^e   Dolgii, S I ^d   Herber, A B ^f   Nagai, T ^g   Neely, R R ^h   Nevzorov, A V ^d   Ritter, C ^f   Sakai, T ^g   Santer, B D ⁱ   Sato, M ^j   Schmidt, A ^k   Uchino, O ^g   Vernier, J P ^l,m  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^l SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^m NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

AERONET retrieval; forcing uncertainty; lower stratospheric AOD; stratospheric aerosol; volcanic aerosol; warming hiatus

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BALLOONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; SATELLITES; SUN;

AERONET; FORCING UNCERTAINTY; LOWER STRATOSPHERIC AOD; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; WARMING HIATUS;

VOLCANOES;

AERONET; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL;

EID: 84923114884     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061541     Document Type: Article

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