Testing the sensitivity of past climates to the indirect effects of dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 5807-5817

  Sagoo, Navjit ^a   Storelvmo, Trude ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol indirect effects; dust; Last Glacial Maximum; mixed phase clouds; Pliocene; polar amplification

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIXED-PHASE CLOUD; PLIOCENE; POLAR AMPLIFICATIONS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE EFFECT; DUST; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 85020462950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072584     Document Type: Article

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