Radiative forcing from anthropogenic sulfur and organic emissions reaching the stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 9361-9367

  Yu, Pengfei ^a,b   Murphy, Daniel M ^a   Portmann, Robert W ^a   Toon, Owen B ^b   Froyd, Karl D ^a,b   Rollins, Andrew W ^a,b   Gao, Ru Shan ^a   Rosenlof, Karen H ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosols; organics; radiative forcing; stratosphere; sulfate

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; DIRECT AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING; LOWERMOST STRATOSPHERE; ORGANICS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; SULFATE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BLACK CARBON; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERE; SULFUR; SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 84988942219     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070153     Document Type: Article

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