Black carbon aerosols
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Black carbon aerosols and the third polar ice cap S. Menon, D. Koch, G. Beig, S. Sahu, J. Fasullo, and D. Orlikowski Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, USA Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India Climate Analysis Section, CGD/NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA Received: 12 November 2009 – Accepted: 30 November 2009 – Published: 11 December 2009 Correspondence to: S. Menon ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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