Aerosols and Their Climatic Effects

The purpose of the meeting was to bring together experts from two major areas of research, namely, aerosols and climate, to provide a current consensus of the importance of aerosol effects on climate, to assess the state of knowledge of aerosol data need for climate studies, and to make recommendations for developing a coordinated action plan for future research in the various aspects of aerosols climate nteractions.

Contents

• Physical Aspects of the Atmospheric Aerosol
• Size Distribution and Optical Properties of Saharan Aerosols during ECLATS
• Variability of Some Optical Coefficients of North Atlantic Maritime Aerosols
• Role of Graphic Carbon Particles in Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
• Baseline Measurements of Tropospheric Optical Aerosol Properties in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
• The World Aerosol Data Library (WADL) Concept
• Parameterization of the Influence of Relative Humidity on Optical Aerosol Properties
• The Sensitivity of a General Circulation Model to Saharan Dust Heating
• First Results of the Introduction of an Advanced Aerosol-Radiation Interaction in the ECMWF Low Resolution Global Model
• On the Optical Properties of Arctic Haze
• The Numerical Simulation of the Evolution of a Saharan Dust Outbreak by Using a General Prognostic Aerosol Model
• The Sensitivity of a Numerical Model of the Global Atmosphere to the Presence of Desert Aerosol
• Tropospheric Aerosol Optical Depth Inverted from Upwelling Radiances
• Heating of the Atmosphere due to Absorption of Shortwave Radiation within Particles
• Anthropogenic Aerosols and Their Regional Scale Climatic Effects
• Impact of the El Chichon Stratospheric Aerosol Layer on Northern Hemisphere Temperatures
• Gaps in the Knowledge of Aerosols - Analyses and Remedies
• A General Survey of the Problem of Aerosol Climatic Impact
• Subject Index

ISBN 0-937194-06-9, 1984, Hardcover, 297 pages, $66.00