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Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness

Bruce A. Albrecht

Science · 1989 · 5,046 citations

doi.org/10.1126/science.245.4923.1227

Abstract

Increases in aerosol concentrations over the oceans may increase the amount of low-level cloudiness through a reduction in drizzle-a process that regulates the liquid-water content and the energetics of shallow marine clouds. The resulting increase in the global albedo would be in addition to the increase due to enhancement in reflectivity associated with a decrease in droplet size and would contribute to a cooling of the earth's surface.

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Albrecht, B. A. (1989). Aerosols, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness. Science, 245(4923), 1227–1230. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.245.4923.1227

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