Sentences with phrase «cloud albedo effect»

For example, AR4 WG1 assesses the level of scientific understanding of cloud albedo effects as «low.»

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.

``... when you correct Sagan's incorrect optical physics of sols, which started the whole CAGW scare, «cloud albedo effect» cooling changes to heating, another AGW which is self - limiting.»

The spatial patterns of RFs for non-LLGHGs (ozone, aerosol direct and cloud albedo effects, and land use changes) have considerable uncertainties, in contrast to the relatively high confidence in that of the LLGHGs.

-- Incorporation of more aerosol species and improved treatment of aerosol - cloud interactions allow a best estimate of the cloud albedo effect.

The RF due to the cloud albedo effect (also referred to as first indirect or Twomey effect), in the context of liquid water clouds, is estimated to be — 0.7 -LSB--- 1.1, +0.4] W m — 2, with a low level of scientific understanding.

Combinations of satellite and surface - based observations allow us to determine trends in aerosol levels as well as cloud albedo effect.