Comments on "direct radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols over oceans from satellite observation"

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Abstract

Previous observational studies have estimated anthropogenic aerosol direct radiative forcing over oceans without due consideration of cloudy-sky aerosols. However, when interaction between clouds and aerosols located below or above the cloud level is taken into account, the aerosol direct radiative forcing is larger by as much as 5 W m-2 in most mid-latitude regions in the Northern Hemisphere.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10-14
Number of pages5
JournalAdvances in Atmospheric Sciences
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Grant No. 2012-0000857). This work was supported by the Korean Ministry of Environment as part of the Eco-Innovation Project.

Keywords

  • aerosol optical depth
  • anthropogenic aerosol
  • cloudy-sky aerosol forcing
  • satellite observations

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