The method of
aerosol impact on the stratosphere is much cheaper, hundreds of times faster, and, if need be, can be easily stopped.
The National Science Foundation's Center for Chemical Innovation supports the Center
for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CHE 1038028).
She will present a talk on how
aerosols impact clouds and climate at the 248th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
How do environmental kinematics, thermodynamics, and
aerosols impact deep convective initiation, upscale growth, and mesoscale organization?
To better understand the relationship between sea spray and clouds, NSF - funded researchers are making waves — literally — at the Center
of Aerosols Impacts on Climate and the Environment in San Diego, California.
Of course, such computer models are only as good as the entered data, so additional information from ongoing observation campaigns — whether that is the DoE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program or the NSF's National Ecological Observatory Network — will be needed to provide a fuller understanding of how soot and
other aerosols impact the global climate as well as the role of clouds.
New research reveals insights into how black
carbon aerosols impact cloud formation RENO — It is widely known that black carbon, or soot, aerosol particles emitted... Read more
Furthermore, the
organic aerosol impact on climate depends on aerosols» physical, chemical, hygroscopic and optical properties, and their distribution in the atmosphere.
Microphysical effects determine macrophysical response
for aerosol impacts on deep convective clouds, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Early Edition online the week of November 11 - 15, 2013, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1316830110.
Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for
Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.
«We have known for a long time that
aerosols impact both the heating and phase changes [such as condensing and freezing] of clouds, and that they can either inhibit or intensify clouds and precipitation,» Russell Dickerson, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, tells The Epoch Times.
Since
the aerosol impacts were particularly great in the Arctic, we studied the seasonality of the changes there.
We found correlations among
the aerosol impacts within regions, so that cooler (warmer) temperatures typically correlated with increased (decreased) snow / ice cover and increased (decreased) cloud cover.
Kimberly Prather and colleagues from the Center for
Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) carried out the study, in an effort to understand the earlier inconsistent findings.
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Aerosol impacts on drizzle properties in warm clouds from ARM Mobile Facility maritime and continental deployments.»
The maximum temperature change is about (0.19 +.10) 0.3 C. Still not close to the actual of 0.5 C. Thats assuming
the aerosol impact is zero, but it's not.
The forcing aspect of the indirect effect at the top of the atmosphere is discussed in Chapter 2, while the processes that involve feedbacks or interactions, like the «cloud lifetime effect» [6], the «semi-direct effect» and
aerosol impacts on the large - scale circulation, convection, the biosphere through nutrient supply and the carbon cycle, are discussed here.
Russell Dickerson, another atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, adds, «We have known for a long time that
aerosols impact both the heating and phase changes [such as condensing and freezing of clouds, and that they can either inhibit or intensify clouds and precipitation.
Aerosol impacts on the magnitude of the temperature response, on clouds and on precipitation remain uncertain.