Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 274-278

  Kok, Jasper F ^a   Ridley, David A ^b   Zhou, Qing ^a   Miller, Ron L ^c   Zhao, Chun ^d   Heald, Colette L ^b,e   Ward, Daniel S ^f   Albani, Samuel ^g   Haustein, Karsten ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DESERT; DUST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 85016960348     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2912     Document Type: Article

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