A modelling study of the impact of on-road diesel emissions on arctic black carbon and solar radiation transfer

Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 318-340

  Pitari, Giovanni ^a   Di Genova, Glauco ^a   De Luca, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black carbon aerosols; Global scale aerosol model; Large scale atmospheric transport; Radiative forcing; Snow albedo forcing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR ENGINES; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON; DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINES; FOG; ROADS AND STREETS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATION TRANSFER; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON; DIESEL; EMISSION INVENTORY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TROPOPAUSE;

ARCTIC;

AQUILA;

EID: 84929328669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos6030318     Document Type: Article

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