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Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Climate

Lohmann, U.

In: Space Science Reviews, 2006, vol. 125, no. 1-4, p. 129-137

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    Titel
    • Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Climate
    Autor
    • Lohmann, U.. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstr. 16, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
    Dokumententyp
    • Postprint
    Sprache
    • Englisch
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    • Space Science Reviews, 2006, vol. 125, no. 1-4, p. 129-137. Kluwer Academic Publishers
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    • oai:doc.rero.ch:316642
    Summary
    Aerosols affect the climate system by changing cloud characteristics in many ways. They act as cloud condensation and ice nuclei, they may inhibit freezing and they could have an influence on the hydrological cycle. While the cloud albedo enhancement (Twomey effect) of warm clouds received most attention so far and traditionally is the only indirect aerosol forcing considered in transient climate simulations, here I discuss the multitude of effects