Challenges in constraining anthropogenic aerosol effects on cloud radiative forcing using present-day spatiotemporal variability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5804-5811

  Ghan, Steven ^a   Wang, Minghuai ^a,b   Zhang, Shipeng ^b   Ferrachat, Sylvaine ^c   Gettelman, Andrew ^d   Griesfeller, Jan ^e   Kipling, Zak ^f   Lohmann, Ulrike ^c   Morrison, Hugh ^d   Neubauer, David ^c   Partridge, Daniel G ^f,g   Stier, Philip ^f   Takemura, Toshihiko ^h   Wang, Hailong ^a   Zhang, Kai ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiative forcing; Cloud aerosol interactions; Factors; Onstraints

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DROPLET NUMBER; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84960345241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514036113     Document Type: Article

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