Not exact matches
Sulphate pollution from power stations and factory chimneys
produces aerosol particles
in the
atmosphere which encourage clouds to form.
Ultimately, scientists hope to learn how
aerosols affect clouds, how much
aerosols are
produced by humans and nature and how they travel
in the
atmosphere.
While a large amount of
aerosols that exist
in the Earth's
atmosphere are naturally occurring — created by processes such as mechanical suspension by wind or sea spray — much is
produced as a result of industrialization.
Aerosols are also
produced when molecules
in the gaseous state enter the
atmosphere and react with other chemicals, he adds.
CLOUD shows that organic vapours emitted by trees
produce abundant
aerosol particles
in the
atmosphere in the absence of sulphuric acid.
Secondary organic
aerosols, or SOAs, are created when hydrocarbon gases, given off by everything from pine trees to snow blowers, undergo a series of chemical reactions
in the
atmosphere to
produce particles.
The organic
aerosol particles that coat the toxic hitchhikers are wafted into the
atmosphere through emissions from trees (like those that
produce the smell of pine trees), and burning biomass and fossil fuel to form a semi-solid sap - like casing surrounding and protecting the particle's payload from breaking down
in the
atmosphere.
I'm pretty sure you can get the grey version of that into a strat - cooling / trop - warming situation if you pick the strat absorbers right, but Andy is certainly right that non-grey effects play a crucial role
in explaining quantitatively what is going on
in the real
atmosphere (that's connected with the non-grey explanation for the anomalously cold tropopause which I have
in Chapter 4, and also with the reason that
aerosols do not
produce stratospheric cooling, and everything depends a lot on what level you are looking at).
Not it is not similar because one event injected sulfate
aerosols into the stratosphere where they stayed for years and affected the globe while the other («human particulates and
aerosol pollution») were
produced in the troposphere and have a residency time
in the
atmosphere of about 4 days and had only a regional effect.
In response, the IPCC added a cooling factor to its models of the
atmosphere, consisting of tiny
aerosol particles
produced by the emission of sulfur dioxide from electric power plants.
The formation of cloud droplets and cloud ice crystals is associated with suspended
aerosols, which are
produced by natural processes as well as human activities and are ubiquitous
in Earth's
atmosphere.