Investigation of mineral aerosols radiative effects over High Mountain Asia in 1990-2009 using a regional climate model

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 178-179, Issue , 2016, Pages 484-496

  Ji, Zhenming ^a   Kang, Shichang ^b,c   Zhang, Qianggong ^a,c   Cong, Zhiyuan ^a,c   Chen, Pengfei ^b   Sillanpää, Mika ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerosol snow ice feedback; Climatic effects; High Mountain Asia; Mineral aerosols; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITION; DUST; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; MINERAL AEROSOLS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; MINERAL; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; PAMIRS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84966269374     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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