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By increasing droplet concentration and thereby the optical thickness of a cloud, pollution acts to increase the reflectance (albedo) of clouds; by increasing the absorption coefficient it acts to decrease the reflectance. Calculations suggest that the former effect (brightening of the clouds in reflection, hence climatically a cooling effect) dominates for thin to moderately thick clouds, whereas for sufficiently thick clouds the latter effect (climatically a warming effect) can become dominant.
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S. Twomey (Fri,) studied this question.
www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6b49339aaaf0da5ab32f7 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1977)034<1149:tiopot>2.0.co;2
S. Twomey
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
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