Climate extremes in multi-model simulations of stratospheric aerosol and marine cloud brightening climate engineering

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9593-9610

  Aswathy, V N ^a   Boucher, O ^b   Quaas, M ^c   Niemeier, U ^d   Muri, H ^e   Mulmenstadt J ^a   Quaas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84940861845     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-9593-2015     Document Type: Article

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