The Climatological Effect of Perturbations in Atmospheric Burden and Optical Properties of Saharan Dust

• Main Author: Strong, Jeffrey Davin O'Neill
• Other Authors: Vecchi, Gabriel A, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University 2016
• Subjects: Climate; Dust; Hurricanes; Hydroclimate; Sahara; Tropics; Atmospheric sciences; Environmental science; Meteorology; Curl; Indian; Pacific; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0100000249w

Mineral dust aerosols are a diverse set of atmospheric constituents which provide some of the largest natural direct radiative forcing and have the propensity to affect several human-relevant issues. This dissertation investigates the regional and global climatic response to aerosol radiative forcin...