«Estimates of the Climatic Impact
of Aerosols Produced by Space Shuttles, SST's, and Other High Flying Aircraft.»
V @ 221 — I am fairly sure you could find a website that would welcome detailed discussions on the finer points of grammatical style if you looked — if there are lots
of aerosol producing eruptions there are lots of aerosols.
Not exact matches
Then, in 1949, Robert Abplanalp, a 27 - year - old machine - shop operator from the Bronx, gladdened the hearts
of whipped - cream lovers everywhere by inventing a cheap, reliable
aerosol - can valve that could be mass -
produced.
French haute couture fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier and CROWN
Aerosols & Specialty Packaging Europe, a business unit
of Crown Holdings Inc., have collaborated to
produce creative new package designs for the brand's «Le Male» and «Classique» fragrances.
They also play a role in the formation
of secondary organic
aerosols — air pollutants
produced when sunlight, organic molecules and airborne chemicals come together and interact.
Experiments Prather and her team conducted in California's Sierra Nevada
produced the first conclusive evidence that dust
aerosols can change the amount
of precipitation
produced by clouds.
When Rajan Chakrabarty, Ph.D., an assistant research professor at the Desert Research Institute, began looking into the regional inventories
of human -
produced sources
of carbon
aerosol pollution in South Asia, considered to be a climate change hot spot, he knew something was missing.
The
produced aerosol is directed over the heated substrate using a stream
of nitrogen gas resulting into a polycrystalline thin film grown on the chalcopyrite substrate over time with embedded nanoparticles
of platinum.
Despite its smaller ash cloud, El Chichn emitted more than 40 times the volume
of sulfur - rich gases
produced by Mt. St. Helens, which revealed that the formation
of atmospheric sulfur
aerosols has a more substantial effect on global temperatures than simply the volume
of ash
produced during an eruption.
Droplets from bursting bubbles are the principle means by which
aerosols are
produced above the open ocean, said first author Luc Deike, a Princeton University assistant professor
of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).
«This paper is indeed universal, and the conclusions can apply to the sea spray
produced in oceans or the
aerosols produced above a glass
of sparkling wine.»
The researchers created a model for predicting the velocity and height
of jet
aerosols produced by bubbles from 20 microns to several millimeters in size, and in liquids as viscous as water, or up to ten times more viscous.
Current research methods such as ice - core drilling can
produce high - quality records
of aerosols and soot going back centuries and even millennia, he says, and «these written accounts provide a good complement» to the data.
Jack added: «Dust is one
of the most important
aerosols for both the climate and the biology
of an environment, and so understanding the amount
of dust
produced, and the distance and direction it travels is vital to allow us to understand its effect better.»
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.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production
of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to
produce — are a major source
of aerosols, a component
of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk
of lung and heart disease.
The results show for the first time for a number
of natural compounds, which together account for around 70 per cent
of the biological hydrocarbon emissions, how much each compound
produces low - volatility products and how they can possibly affect the climate via
producing aerosol particles.
If
aerosol quantities are known, they can
of course be compared with how much lightning is later
produced by the cloud in question.
Now if this was the 1980s they might have had a point, but the fact that
aerosols are an important climate forcing, have a net cooling effect on climate and, in part, arise from the same industrial activities that
produce greenhouse gases, has been part
of mainstream science for 30 years.
The net effect
of human - generated
aerosols is more complicated and regionally variable — for example, in contrast to the local warming effect
of the Asian Brown Cloud, global shipping
produces large amounts
of cooling reflective sulphate
aerosols: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990820022710.htm
The problem is that the regions where
aerosols are
produced show warming not cooling in recent times, and the 1940 - 1975 cooling trend is seen in many parts
of the globe where
aerosols were not a factor.
CLOUD shows that organic vapours emitted by trees
produce abundant
aerosol particles in the atmosphere in the absence
of sulphuric acid.
Although the use
of e-cigarettes (called vaping) is believed by many experts to be less toxic than cigarette smoking — and could even help some people quit smoking — recent research at Penn State College
of Medicine and other institutions indicates that inhaled
aerosols produced by vaporizing e-liquids are not harmless.
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.
Aldrin et al
produce a number
of (explicitly Bayesian) estimates, their «main» one with a range
of 1.2 ºC to 3.5 ºC (mean 2.0 ºC) which assumes exactly zero indirect
aerosol effects, and possibly a more realistic sensitivity test including a small Aerosol Indirect Effect of 1.2 - 4.8 ºC (mean 2
aerosol effects, and possibly a more realistic sensitivity test including a small
Aerosol Indirect Effect of 1.2 - 4.8 ºC (mean 2
Aerosol Indirect Effect
of 1.2 - 4.8 ºC (mean 2.5 ºC).
Airborne particles in the form
of naturally occurring dusts and human -
produced aerosols can serve as ice nuclei, sites around which water vapor condenses into clouds.
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.
The effects
of aerosol injections are at least somewhat known, since volcanic eruptions
produce aerosols naturally and have
produced cooling in the past.
Phytoplankton — the tiny, green algae at the surface
of the ocean —
produce airborne gases and organic matter that form marine
aerosols.
Luedeckens believes it was the lack
of control that caught the imagination
of artists like David Smith and John Latham, who were among the first to
produce aerosol - painted series.
This prompted him to both
produce and direct a two hour documentary film on the global impact
of aerosol culture called Get The Message.
Our proposed mechanism could
produce quite a lot
of aerosol but only future studies can show the precise impact.
Your Grand Theory seems to rest on the idea that FF - use
produces CO2, a GHG which is warming the planet but that, in some bizarre balance, a commensurate quantity
of SO2
aerosols must also be
produced cooling the planet.
Let me try to be more explicit: if you want to assume (or, if you prefer, conclude) that
aerosols produced by the increased burning
of fossil fuels after WWII had a cooling effect that essentially cancelled out the warming that would be expected as a result
of the release
of CO2
produced by that burning, then it's only logical to conclude that there exists a certain ratio between the warming and cooling effects
produced by that same burning.
And the sort
of FF burned during the first half
of the 20th century was
produced by the fuel most likely to generate sulfate
aerosols: coal.
But at that time we were
producing a lot
of sulphates and other
aerosols that helped cool the planet but that is also complimented by natural variability.
If you want to assume that
aerosols resulting from pollution
produced by the burning
of fossil fuels were responsible for the cooling evident from 1940 through the late 70's, then you have no reason to claim ANY degree
of warming due to CO2 forcing during any earlier period.
With the cosmic ray effect we have ~ 0.3 C
of solar warming combined with ~ 0.2
of CO2 warming, which is then offset by human -
produced aerosols to yield ~ 0.3
of waring.
We must remember that are a number
of aerosol sources that
produce particles
of this size (about 100 nm or 0.1 micron), including anthropogenic ones.
[Response:
Aerosol forcings in the GISS model are derived from externally
produced emission inventories, combined with online calculations
of transport, deposition, settling etc..
See e.g. Stother (2000) the abstract
of which reads Somewhere in the tropics, a volcano exploded violently during the year 1258,
producing a massive stratospheric
aerosol veil that eventually blanketed the globe.
What's in question is not any rise in temperature
produced by the dissipation
of aerosols.
And for those
of you who want to insist that
aerosols produced by the uncontrolled burning
of coal neutralized the effects
of AGW from 1940 to 1979, please explain how the same argument could not be made for the effects
of coal - induced
aerosols during this earlier period, when no constraints on the polluting effects
of coal combustion were present at all.
Unfortunately poor Victor has yet to notice the implications
of his words — «What's in question is not any rise in temperature
produced by the dissipation
of aerosols.
Note to reporters: a scientist's willingness to make predictions
of the future is an indication
of the current level
of understanding
of the science; for example Hansen et al predicted that Pinatubo's eruption in 1991 would
produce a significant
aerosol cooling effect, and they were right; but would anyone be willing to predict that La Nina (assuming conditions set in) will result in a record hurricane season this fall?
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).
Please excuse the ignorance
of my question but it popped into my head: wouldn't injecting sulfate
aerosols into the atmosphere
produce sulfuric acid rain?
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.
Next, regions that today
produce massive amounts
of aerosols don't show cooling at all.
Hansen's group estimates that
aerosols probably counteract about half
of the warming
produced by man - made greenhouse gases, but he cautions that better measurements
of these elusive particles are needed.