Easy Volcanic Aerosol (EVA v1.0): An idealized forcing generator for climate simulations

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4049-4070

  Toohey, Matthew ^a,b   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Schmidt, Hauke ^a   Timmreck, Claudia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; MIE THEORY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVELENGTH;

INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMBAWA; TAMBORA; WEST NUSA TENGGARA;

EID: 84995466497     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-4049-2016     Document Type: Article

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