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SUBMITTER: Huang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1450178 | biostudies-other | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060314 12
A regional coupled climate-chemistry-aerosol model is developed to examine the impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on surface temperature and precipitation over East Asia. Besides their direct and indirect reduction of short-wave solar radiation, the increased cloudiness and cloud liquid water generate a substantial downward positive long-wave surface forcing; consequently, nighttime temperature in winter increases by +0.7 degrees C, and the diurnal temperature range decreases by -0.7 degrees C av ...[more]