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On average, airborne aerosol particles cool the Earth’s surface directly by absorbingand scattering sunlight and indirectly by influencing cloud reflectivity, life time, thicknessor extent. Here we show that over the central Arctic Ocean, where there is frequentlya lack of aerosol particles upon whi...
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ftdatacite:10.3929/ethz-b-000028541 2024-09-15T17:53:32+00:00 Aerosols indirectly warm the Arctic ... Mauritsen, Thorsten Sedlar, Joseph Tjernström, Michael Leck, Caroline Martin, M. Shupe, Matthew Sjogren, S. Sierau, Berko Persson, P.O.G. Brooks, Ian M. Swietlicki, Erik 2011 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000028541 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/28541 en eng ETH Zurich info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode cc-by-3.0 Text Journal Article ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000028541 2024-08-01T10:40:12Z On average, airborne aerosol particles cool the Earth’s surface directly by absorbingand scattering sunlight and indirectly by influencing cloud reflectivity, life time, thicknessor extent. Here we show that over the central Arctic Ocean, where there is frequentlya lack of aerosol particles upon which clouds may form, a small increase in aerosol5loading may enhance cloudiness thereby likely causing a climatologically significantwarming at the ice-covered Arctic surface. Under these low concentration conditionscloud droplets grow to drizzle sizes and fall, even in the absence of collisions andcoalescence, thereby diminishing cloud water. Evidence from a case study suggeststhat interactions between aerosol, clouds and precipitation could be responsible for10attaining the observed low aerosol concentrations. ... : Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10 (7) ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Ocean DataCite |
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On average, airborne aerosol particles cool the Earth’s surface directly by absorbingand scattering sunlight and indirectly by influencing cloud reflectivity, life time, thicknessor extent. Here we show that over the central Arctic Ocean, where there is frequentlya lack of aerosol particles upon which clouds may form, a small increase in aerosol5loading may enhance cloudiness thereby likely causing a climatologically significantwarming at the ice-covered Arctic surface. Under these low concentration conditionscloud droplets grow to drizzle sizes and fall, even in the absence of collisions andcoalescence, thereby diminishing cloud water. Evidence from a case study suggeststhat interactions between aerosol, clouds and precipitation could be responsible for10attaining the observed low aerosol concentrations. ... : Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10 (7) ... |
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Mauritsen, Thorsten Sedlar, Joseph Tjernström, Michael Leck, Caroline Martin, M. Shupe, Matthew Sjogren, S. Sierau, Berko Persson, P.O.G. Brooks, Ian M. Swietlicki, Erik Aerosols indirectly warm the Arctic ... |
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