Sentences with phrase «aerosol types»
"Aerosol types" refers to different forms of particles or droplets suspended in the air. These tiny particles can be found in various sizes and compositions, including things like dust, smoke, or sprays. Full definition
The aerosol workshop made similar advances in evaluating the impact of different aerosol types.
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I've also mentioned already, that there are different aerosol types.
The data are expected to improve scientists» ability to track different cloud and aerosol types throughout the atmosphere.
The only aerosol type we can measure more or less directly is black carbon, since we have an instrument that can detect radiation - absorbing particles, and black carbon is the main particle type that absorbs radiation.
And a new NASA climate satellite called Glory, which will launch late in 2010, will carry a new type of aerosol sensor that should be able to distinguish between aerosol types more accurately than previous instruments.
Penner et al. (1996) reported a range of forcing from -2.5 to -4.5 Wm - 2 (not included in Table 6.6), which is probably an overestimate because of neglect of other aerosol types such as dust and sea salt and underestimated natural emissions of organic aerosols.
In this case the computed forcings incorporate the effects of other aerosol types which have a similar spatial distribution to sulphate aerosols, such as nitrate aerosols or carbonaceous aerosols from fossil fuel combustion.
Freshly emitted soot is an example of a hydrophobic aerosol type; after chemical transformation in the atmosphere (e.g. oxidation of its surface rendering it more hygroscopic; condensation of more hydrophilic species onto the particle) it will gradually pick up water as well.
At 95 % RH, water is perhaps the dominant compound in most aerosol types, but at say 50 % RH, that's not the case.
An exception is e.g freshly emitted soot, which is far from spherical (see some pictures of archetypical aerosol types here; soot = Russpartikel).