Potential climate effect of mineral aerosols over West Africa. Part I: model validation and contemporary climate evaluation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 1223-1239

  Ji, Zhenming ^a,b   Wang, Guiling ^b   Pal, Jeremy S ^a   Yu, Miao ^b  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic effects; Mineral aerosols; Regional climate model; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; MODEL VALIDATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84957428242     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2641-y     Document Type: Article

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