Climate Feedback on Aerosol Emission and Atmospheric Concentrations

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Tegen, Ina ^a   Schepanski, Kerstin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Biogeochemical cycles; Climate change; Climate forcing; Natural aerosols

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047762061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-018-0086-1     Document Type: Review

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