High sensitivity of Indian summer monsoon to Middle East dust absorptive properties

The absorptive properties of dust aerosols largely determine the magnitude of their radiative impacts on the climate system. Currently, climate models use globally constant values of dust imaginary refractive index (IRI), a parameter describing the dust absorption efficiency of solar radiation, alth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jin, Qinjian, Yang, Zong-Liang, Wei, Jiangfeng
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Global Change Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106980