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SUBMITTER: Jin Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964619 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jin Qinjian Q Yang Zong-Liang ZL Wei Jiangfeng J
Scientific reports 20160728
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, although it is highly variable. Here we show with model experiments that the dust-induced Indian summer monsoon (ISM) rainfall differences (with dust minus without dust) change from -9% to 23% of long-ter ...[more]