The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds. Export

@article{Twomey1977Clouds, abstract = {By increasing droplet concentration and thereby the optical thickness of a cloud, pollution acts to increase the reflectance (albedo) of clouds; by increasing the absorption coefficient it acts to decrease the reflectance. Calculations suggest that the former effect (brightening of the clouds in reflection, hence climatically a cooling effect) dominates for thin to moderately thick clouds, whereas for sufficiently thick clouds the latter effect (climatically a warming effect) can become dominant.}, author = {Twomey, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {1602618}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1977JAtS...34.1149T}, journal = {Journal of Atmospheric Sciences}, keywords = {clouds, clouds-physics, radiativetransfer, remotesensing}, month = {July}, pages = {1149--1154}, posted-at = {2007-08-29 03:04:35}, priority = {0}, title = {The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds.}, url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1977JAtS...34.1149T}, volume = {34}, year = {1977} }

TY - JOUR ID - Twomey1977Clouds L3 - citeulike-article-id:1602618 N2 - By increasing droplet concentration and thereby the optical thickness of a cloud, pollution acts to increase the reflectance (albedo) of clouds; by increasing the absorption coefficient it acts to decrease the reflectance. Calculations suggest that the former effect (brightening of the clouds in reflection, hence climatically a cooling effect) dominates for thin to moderately thick clouds, whereas for sufficiently thick clouds the latter effect (climatically a warming effect) can become dominant. JF - Journal of Atmospheric Sciences EP - 1154 TI - The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds. VL - 34 SP - 1149 KW - clouds KW - clouds-physics KW - radiativetransfer KW - remotesensing AU - Twomey, S PY - 1977/July// UR - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1977JAtS...34.1149T ER -