Black carbon radiative forcing over the Tibetan Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7806-7813

  He, Cenlin ^a   Li, Qinbin ^a   Liou, Kuo Nan ^a   Takano, Yoshi ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Qi, Ling ^a   Mao, Yuhao ^b   Leung, L Ruby ^c  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

black carbon; direct radiative forcing; snow albedo forcing; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON; MIXING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; BLACK CARBON; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ABSORPTION; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; EMISSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWPACK; STOCHASTICITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84923379459     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062191     Document Type: Article

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