Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Kok, Jasper F ^a   Ward, Daniel S ^b   Mahowald, Natalie M ^c   Evan, Amato T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MIDDLE EAST; SAHEL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CENTRAL ASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 85040813611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02620-y     Document Type: Article

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