Black carbon and the Himalayan cryosphere: A review

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 404-417

  Gertler, Charles G ^a,b   Puppala, Siva Praveen ^a   Panday, Arnico ^a   Stumm, Dorothea ^a   Shea, Joseph ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Black carbon; Climate forcing; Cryosphere; Glaciers; Hindu Kush Himalaya

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLACIERS; ICE; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CRYOSPHERE; HIMALAYAS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BLACK CARBON; ICE; SNOW;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE FORCING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYOSPHERE; GLACIER; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOSPHERE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GLACIER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HIMALAYAN CRYOSPHERE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SOUTH ASIA; SURFACE PROPERTY; WET DEPOSITION;

HIMALAYAS; HINDU KUSH;

EID: 84954156178     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.08.078     Document Type: Article

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