• DOI:10.1126/science.255.5043.423
Corpus ID: 26740611

Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols

@article{Charlson1992ClimateFB,
  title={Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols},
  author={R. Charlson and S. E. Schwartz and J. M. Hales and R. Cess and J. Coakley and J. Hansen and D. Hofmann},
  journal={Science},
  year={1992},
  volume={255},
  pages={423 - 430}
}

R. Charlson, S. E. Schwartz, +4 authors D. Hofmann

Published 1992

Environmental Science, Medicine

Science

Although long considered to be of marginal importance to global climate change, tropospheric aerosol contributes substantially to radiative forcing, and anthropogenic sulfate aerosol in particular has imposed a major perturbation to this forcing. Both the direct scattering of shortwavelength solar radiation and the modification of the shortwave reflective properties of clouds by sulfate aerosol particles increase planetary albedo, thereby exerting a cooling influence on the planet. Current… CONTINUE READING

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