Substantial contribution of anthropogenic air pollution to catastrophic floods in Southwest China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 6066-6075

  Fan, Jiwen ^a   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^b   Yang, Yan ^a,c   Zhao, Chun ^a   Ruby Leung, L ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^d,e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aerosol impacts; black carbon; extreme weather; flood; pollution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EXTREME WEATHER; FLOODS; GREENHOUSE GASES; POLLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTHROPOGENIC AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; BLACK CARBON; CATASTROPHIC FLOODS; EARTH'S RADIATIVE BALANCE; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 84938958926     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064479     Document Type: Article

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