Convergence on climate warming by black carbon aerosols

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

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 4243-4245

  Gustafsson, Örjan ^a   Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; CARBON;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NOTE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNLIGHT; WARMING; ANALYSIS; CLIMATE; SOOT;

AEROSOLS; CARBON; CLIMATE; SOOT;

EID: 84964318650     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1603570113     Document Type: Note

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