Influence of anthropogenic aerosol on cloud optical depth and albedo shown by satellite measurements and chemical transport modeling

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Schwartz, Stephen E., Harshvardhan, Benkovitz, Carmen M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The National Academy of Sciences 2002
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Twomey; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC122271; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11854481; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.261712099

The Twomey effect of enhanced cloud droplet concentration, optical depth, and albedo caused by anthropogenic aerosols is thought to contribute substantially to radiative forcing of climate change over the industrial period. However, present model-based estimates of this indirect forcing are highly u...