Seasonal responses of Indian summer monsoon to dust aerosols in the middle East, India, and China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 6329-6349

  Jin, Qinjian ^a,b   Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Wei, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation Dynamics; Convection; Heating; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Regional models

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; HEAT CONVECTION; HEATING; RAIN; WATER VAPOR;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; REGIONAL MODEL; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DUST; HEATING; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

CHINA; INDIA; IRANIAN PLATEAU; MIDDLE EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84983537171     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0622.1     Document Type: Article

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