Albedo Reduction by Light Absorbing Impurities and the Associated Radiative Forcing over High Mountain Asia: GFDL Global Climate Model and MODIS Observations

Hoi Ga Veronica Chan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul A Ginoux, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Sarah B. Kapnick, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States