Impact of dust size parameterizations on aerosol burden and radiative forcing in RegCM4

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 769-791

  Tsikerdekis, Athanasios ^a   Zanis, Prodromos ^a   Steiner, Allison L ^b   Solmon, Fabien ^c   Amiridis, Vassilis ^d   Marinou, Eleni ^a,d   Katragkou, Eleni ^a   Karacostas, Theodoros ^a   Foret, Gilles ^e  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SAHARA;

EID: 85010002137     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-769-2017     Document Type: Article

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