Fine resolution atmospheric sulfate model driven by operational meteorological data: Comparison with observations

• Main Authors: Benkovitz, C.M., Schwartz, S.E., Berkowitz, C.M., Easter, R.C.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; SULFATES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; SULFUR DIOXIDE; OXIDATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; CLIMATE MODELS; OZONE; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; WASHOUT; Bates; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10104611; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10104611

The hypothesis that anthropogenic sulfur aerosol influences clear-sky and cloud albedo and can thus influence climate has been advanced by several investigators; current global-average climate forcing is estimated to be of comparable magnitude, but opposite sign, to longwave forcing by anthropogenic...