Radiative Forcing by Smoke Aerosols Determined from Satellite and Surface Measurements
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As a potential offsetting agent to the greenhouse effect, aerosols are receiving increasing attention in the atmospheric science community. Notwithstanding, our knowledge of the impact of aerosols on radiation and climate is rather poor and falls well behind that of the greenhouse effect (IPCC 1995). Direct radiative forcing (DRF) of aerosols is an important climatic parameter measuring the influence of aerosols on earth’s climate. Observational studies of aerosol DRF usually suffer from a shortage of in situ measurements of aerosol optical properties. This study introduces a new approach to determine atmospheric DRF due to smoke aerosols from fires in a boreal forest region under any sky conditions using satellite and surface measurements.
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