The G4Foam Experiment: Global climate impacts of regional ocean albedo modification

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 595-613

  Gabriel, Corey J ^a   Robock, Alan ^a   Xia, Lili ^a   Zambri, Brian ^a   Kravitz, Ben ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; HADLEY CELL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85009454856     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-595-2017     Document Type: Article

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