Aerosol Effects on Climate via Mixed-Phase and Ice Clouds

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2017, Pages 199-222

  Storelvmo, T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate; Clouds; Ice; Ice nuclei; Mixed phase

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE; LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; ICE NUCLEI; INFLUENCE ON CLIMATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MIXED PHASE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE CRYSTAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLCANIC CLOUD;

EID: 85029182102     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012240     Document Type: Article

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