How
do organic aerosols from biomass burning, which you can see in the red dots, intersect with clouds and rainfall patterns?
Not exact matches
The cooling effect of
aerosols can partly offset global warming on a short - term basis, but many are made of
organic material that comes from sources that scientists don't fully understand, said Joost de Gouw, a research physicist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., who is unaffiliated with the studies.
Why It Matters: Current atmospheric computer models
do not consider the evolving chemistry of the
organic aerosols.
Cointegration indicates that internal climate variability and / or the omission of some components of radiative forcing (e.g., stratospheric water vapor, black or
organic carbon, nitrite
aerosols, etc.)
do not impart a stochastic or deterministic trend that would interfere with the interpretation of temperature changes at the subdecadal scale (SI Appendix).
Observational evidence suggests that some
organic aerosol compounds from fossil fuels are relatively weakly absorbing but
do absorb solar radiation at some ultraviolet and visible wavelengths (e.g., Bond et al., 1999; Jacobson, 1999; Bond, 2001) although
organic aerosol from high - temperature combustion such as fossil fuel burning (Dubovik et al., 1998; Kirchstetter et al., 2004) appears less absorbing than from low - temperature combustion such as open biomass burning.