New approaches to quantifying aerosol influence on the cloud radiative effect

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

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5812-5819

  Feingold, Graham ^a   McComiskeyb, Allison ^a   Yamaguchi, Takanobu ^a,b   Johnsond, Jill S ^c   Carslawd, Kenneth S ^c   Schmidte, K Sebastian ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Climate forcing; Cloud; Radiation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOUD; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION;

EID: 84969751586     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514035112     Document Type: Article

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