Sentences with phrase «cloud albedo»

The impact of such an effect on the planetary cloud albedo has not been assessed.

However, cosmic rays may facilitate the generation of additional cloud nucleation particles thereby decreasing the average droplet size in clouds and hence increasing cloud albedo.

Aerosol and cloud research is one of the most critical frontiers of climate science [Shindell et al., 2009; Bodenschatz et al., 2010] and the direct radiative forcing and indirect cloud albedo forcing from aerosols remain the dominant uncertainty in the radiative forcing of the atmosphere

Investigators are least certain of the climatic influence of something called the aerosol cloud albedo effect, in which aerosols from human origins interact with clouds in complex ways and make the clouds brighter, reflecting sunlight back to space.

Unless low - level cloud albedo substantially decreased during this time period, the reduced solar absorption caused by the reported enhancement of cloud cover would have resulted in cooling of the climate system that is inconsistent with the observed temperature record.»

When DMS is emitted to the atmosphere it oxidizes to gas phase sulfuric acid, which can form new aerosol particles that impact cloud albedo and, hence, cool Earth's surface.

«Natural Aerosols Explain Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of Southern Ocean Cloud Albedo.»

Besides SimCity, Maxis also made SimEarth, which simulated cloud albedo, CO2 content, etc. etc..

They found that, although the aerosol direct effect or an increase in continental cloud albedo could contribute to damp the surface temperature diurnal cycle, only an increase in continental cloud cover would be consistent with observations (Karl et al., 1993).

Three cases are shown: the total of all anthropogenic radiative forcings (block filled red curve); Long - lived greenhouse gases and ozone radiative forcings (dashed red curve); and aerosol direct and cloud albedo radiative forcings (dashed blue curve).

Thus, our study suggests that one way to improve the equatorial cold bias in the models is to improve the representation of subtropical and mid-latitude cloud albedo.

This increases absorbed IR by a factor of 5, offset in the hind0 - casting by exaggerated cloud albedo, hence evaporation and heating rate is artificially increased.

Hot days and nights but not as hot as deserts because cloud albedo modulates DSW.

And then you have to accept that the climate models do a very poor job of predicting CO2 - AGW because the equation introduced by Lacis and Hansen in 1974 to predict cloud albedo change from pollution is useless even though Sagan derived it.

These can be considered constant to the first approximation but obviously cloud albedo is a hot topic at the moment (Svenmark).

Atmospheric aerosols exert an important influence on climate1 through their effects on stratiform cloud albedo and lifetime2 and the invigoration of convective storms3.