Aircraft soot indirect effect on large-scale cirrus clouds: Is the indirect forcing by aircraft soot positive or negative?

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11,303-11,320

  Zhou, Cheng ^a   Penner, Joyce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CIRRUS; DUST; FREEZING; ICE; NUCLEATION; SOOT; SULFATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL AMERICA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84943752866     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021914     Document Type: Article

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