Regional climate feedbacks in Central Chile and their effect on air quality episodes and meteorology

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P5, 2014, Pages 771-781

  Mena Carrasco, Marcelo ^a,b   Saide, Pablo ^d   Delgado, Rodrigo ^e   Hernandez, Pablo ^c   Spak, Scott ^d   Molina, Luisa ^f   Carmichael, Gregory ^d   Jiang, Xiaoyan ^g  

^a Ministerio del Medio Ambiente   (Chile)

^b Instituto de Geografia   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e Direccion Meteorologica de Chile   (Chile)

^f MOLINA CENTER FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Andes; Black carbon; Regional climate; Santiago

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926952229     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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