Quaas, Johannes (2015): Approaches to Observe Anthropogenic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

Quaas, Johannes (2015): Approaches to Observe Anthropogenic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. In Curr Clim Change Rep 1 (4), pp.[nbsp]297–304. DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0028-0[nbsp]

„Anthropogenic aerosol particles exert an—quantitatively very uncertain—effective radiative forcing due to aerosol-cloud interactions via an immediate altering of cloud albedo on the one hand and via rapid adjustments by alteration of cloud processes and by changes in thermodynamic profiles on the other hand. Large variability in cloud cover and properties and the therefore low signal-to-noise ratio for aerosol-induced perturbations hamper the identification of effects in observations.“

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