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September 15, 1989Science5,008 citations

Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness

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BABruce A. Albrecht

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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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Bruce A. Albrecht (1989) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7498583cafc49e548f433https://doi.org/10.1126/science.245.4923.1227
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