Abstract
To determine the effects of atmospheric aerosols on the radiative heating of the earth-atmosphere system, the radiative transfer equation is solved analytically in the two-stream approximation. It is found that the sign of the heating is independent of optical thickness of an aerosol layer and the amount of heating approaches a finite limit with increasing thickness of a layer. Limitations of the two-stream approximation are discussed.
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Radiative transferAerosolAtmosphere (unit)Environmental scienceSign (mathematics)Atmospheric sciencesLimit (mathematics)Atmospheric radiative transfer codesLayer (electronics)PhysicsComputational physicsMeteorologyMaterials scienceMathematicsOpticsMathematical analysis
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- 1974
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 183
- Issue
- 4120
- Pages
- 75-77
- Citations
- 292
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Petr Chlek,
James A. Coakley
(1974).
Aerosols and Climate.
Science
, 183
(4120)
, 75-77.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4120.75
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- DOI
- 10.1126/science.183.4120.75