Impact of dust radiative forcing upon climate

Mineral Dust: A Key Player in the Earth System

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 327-357

  Miller, Ron L ^a,b   Knippertz, Peter ^c,d   Pérez García Pando, Carlos ^a,b   Perlwitz, Jan P ^a,b   Tegen, Ina ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiative forcing; Climate response; Feedback upon dust mobilization; Precipitation response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930907596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_13     Document Type: Chapter

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