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Effect of absorbing aerosols on global radiation budget
Author(s) -
Chylek Petr,
Wong J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/95gl00800
Subject(s) - radiative forcing , aerosol , forcing (mathematics) , radiative transfer , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , biomass burning , range (aeronautics) , radiation , meteorology , physics , materials science , optics , composite material
An expression for a globally averaged value of direct radiative forcing by absorbing aerosols is derived and applied to the case of smokes produced by biomass burning. It is shown that the direct radiative forcing due to the biomass burning aerosols is a sensitive function of the size distribution of aerosol particles. For the range of measured size distributions of smoke aerosols the direct radiative forcing varies between −0.2 and −1.1 W/m ².