Composition and physical properties of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer and the North American Tropospheric Aerosol Layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2540-2546

  Yu, Pengfei ^a   Toon, Owen B ^a   Neely, Ryan R ^a,b,c   Martinsson, Bengt G ^d   Brenninkmeijer, Carl A M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATAL; NATAL

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ATAL; CONSTANT PRESSURES; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; MODEL AND OBSERVATION; NATAL; RADIATION MODELING; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TROPOPAUSE;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84928695762     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063181     Document Type: Article

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