Chapter 3: Evaluating the impacts of carbonaceous aerosols on clouds and climate

• Main Authors: Menon, Surabi, Del Genio, Anthony D.
• Other Authors: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Environmental Energy Technologies Division.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2007
• Subjects: Precipitation; Biomass; Aerosols; Clouds; 54; Greenhouse Gases; Stratosphere; Heating; Phase Shift; Permafrost; Climates; Northern Hemisphere; Convection; Arctic Regions; Troposphere; Climate Models; Polar Regions; Arctic; Beck; black carbon; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc896996/

Any attempt to reconcile observed surface temperature changes within the last 150 years to changes simulated by climate models that include various atmospheric forcings is sensitive to the changes attributed to aerosols and aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, which are the main contributors that may...