Effects of declining aerosols on projections of zonally averaged tropical precipitation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Rotstayn, L D ^a   Collier, M A ^a   Luo, J J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aerosols; climate projections; CMIP5; tropical precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

AEROSOL EFFECT; AEROSOL EMISSIONS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; ZONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84928804623     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044018     Document Type: Article

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