Modeling East Asian Dust and Its Radiative Feedbacks in CAM4-BAM

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1079-1096

  Xie, Xiaoning ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Che, Huizheng ^c   Xie, Xiaoxun ^a   Wang, Hongli ^d   Li, Jiandong ^e   Shi, Zhengguo ^a   Liu, Yangang ^f  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d Shaanxi Radio and TV University   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAM4 BAM; dust cycle; dust radiation interaction

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

FAR EAST; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 85042227937     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027343     Document Type: Article

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