Weakened tropical circulation and reduced precipitation in response to geoengineering

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ferraro, Angus J ^a   Highwood, Eleanor J ^a   Charlton Perez, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

radiative transfer; stratospheric aerosol geoengineering; tropical overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GEOENGINEERING; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; RADIATIVE HEATING; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84928096797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/1/014001     Document Type: Article

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