Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness
Abstract
Increases in aerosol concentrations over the oceans may increase the amount of low-level cloudiness through a reduction in drizzle--a process that regulates the liquid-water content and the energetics of shallow marine clouds. The resulting increase in the global albedo would be in addition to the increase due to enhancement in reflectivity associated with a decrease in droplet size and would contribute to a cooling of the earth's surface.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.245.4923.1227
- Bibcode:
- 1989Sci...245.1227A