Role of radiatively forced temperature changes in enhanced semi-arid warming in the cold season over east Asia

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 13777-13786

  Guan, X ^a   Huang, J ^a   Guo, R ^a   Yu, H ^a   Lin, P ^b   Zhang, Y ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEMIARID REGION;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84950278476     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-13777-2015     Document Type: Article

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