Direct radiative effects of dust aerosols emitted from the Tibetan Plateau on the East Asian summer monsoon-A regional climate model simulation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2017, Pages 13731-13745

  Sun, Hui ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Pan, Zaitao ^c,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; EMISSION; MONSOON; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; GOBI DESERT; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 85034650467     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-13731-2017     Document Type: Article

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