Radiative feedbacks of dust in snow over eastern Asia in CAM4-BAM

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2018, Pages 12683-12698

  Xie, Xiaoning ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Che, Huizheng ^c   Xie, Xiaoxun ^a   Li, Xinzhou ^a   Shi, Zhengguo ^a   Wang, Hongli ^d   Zhao, Tianliang ^e   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 NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DUST; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85052717602     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-12683-2018     Document Type: Article

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