Menon et al. 2002
Menon, S., J.E. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, and Y. Luo, 2002: Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India. Science, 297, 2250-2253, doi:10.1126/science.1075159.
In recent decades there has been a tendency toward increased summer floods in south China, increased drought in north China, and moderate cooling in China and India while most of the world has been warming. We used a global climate model to investigate possible aerosol contributions to these trends. We found precipitation and temperature changes in the model that were comparable to those observed if the aerosols included a large proportion of absorbing black carbon ("soot"), similar to observed amounts. Absorbing aerosols heat the air, alter regional atmospheric stability and vertical motions, and affect the large-scale circulation and hydrologic cycle with significant regional climate effects.
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Menon, S., Hansen, J.E., Nazarenko, L., and Luo, Y.: Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India, Science, 297, 2250-2253, doi:10.1126/science.1075159, 2002.
Menon, S., J.E. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, and Y. Luo (2002), Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India, Science, 297, 2250-2253, doi:10.1126/science.1075159.
Menon, S., J.E. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, and Y. Luo, 2002: Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India. Science, 297, 2250-2253, doi:10.1126/science.1075159.
Menon, S., Hansen, J.E., Nazarenko, L., & Luo, Y. 2002, Science, 297, 2250, doi:10.1126/science.1075159.
Menon S, Hansen JE, Nazarenko L, Luo Y. Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India, Science 2002;297:2250-2253. doi:10.1126/science.1075159.
S. Menon, J.E. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, Y. Luo, Science 297, 2250-2253, doi:10.1126/science.1075159 (2002).
