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What is aerosol and why is it important for climate? Earth's atmosphere from the surface to the top of the stratosphere at about 40 km altitude contains particles ranging in size from molecular clusters of nanometers in diameter up to particles of several micrometers near the surface. Aerosol is the term used to describe this suspension of liquid and solid particles in the air. This book is called Aerosols and Climate (plural) because there are many different types of aerosol with varying effects on climate. Aerosol is important for climate because the particles scatter and absorb solar and terrestrial radiation and because they are the nuclei upon which cloud droplets and ice particles form, which dominate Earth's albedo. Particles enter the atmosphere mainly at the surface by direct emission of material like wind-blown sea spray and mineral dust, and from natural and human (anthropogenic) combustion sources that produce particles composed of complex mixtures of organic carbon, soot and other material. There is also a tiny input of particles at the top of the atmosphere from cosmic dust. Particles also form directly within the atmosphere from gas-to-particle conversion (nucleation

Author

Ken S. Carslaw

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2022

Language

DE

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Updated

2026-03-13