TY - JOUR
T1 - Graphitic carbon content of aerosols, clouds and snow, and its climatic implications
AU - Chýlek, Petr
AU - Ramaswamy, V.
AU - Srivastava, V.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Reported research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grant ATM-8007443. National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
PY - 1984/7/1
Y1 - 1984/7/1
N2 - Effect of graphitic carbon on radiative characteristics of aerosols, clouds and snow is investigated using a random internal mixture model in which most particles are randomly distributed throughout the volume of individual aerosols, cloud drops and snow grains. It is found that the specific absorption of carbon in aerosols, drops and snow grains is increased several times over the specific absorption of carbon in air. This leads to a decrease in the albedo of aerosols, clouds and snow, suggesting that graphitic carbon could exert a nonnegligible influence on regional and global climate.
AB - Effect of graphitic carbon on radiative characteristics of aerosols, clouds and snow is investigated using a random internal mixture model in which most particles are randomly distributed throughout the volume of individual aerosols, cloud drops and snow grains. It is found that the specific absorption of carbon in aerosols, drops and snow grains is increased several times over the specific absorption of carbon in air. This leads to a decrease in the albedo of aerosols, clouds and snow, suggesting that graphitic carbon could exert a nonnegligible influence on regional and global climate.
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U2 - 10.1016/0048-9697(84)90255-9
DO - 10.1016/0048-9697(84)90255-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021282670
VL - 36
SP - 117
EP - 120
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
IS - C
ER -