Comparison of climate response to anthropogenic aerosol versus greenhouse gas forcing: Distinct patterns

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 5175-5188

  Wang, Hai ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Liu, Qinyu ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Anthropogenic effects; Applications; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation dynamics; Climate variability; Physical meteorology and climatology; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; APPLICATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; TREND ANALYSIS;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84977493390     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0106.1     Document Type: Article

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