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20: 95:. Satellite imagery often shows trails of cloud, or of enhanced brightness of cloud, behind ocean-going ships due to this effect. The decrease in global mean absorption of solar radiation due to increases in CCN concentrations exerts a cooling influence on climate; the global average magnitude of this effect over the industrial era is estimated as between −0.3 and −1.8 W/m. 480: 368: 700: 619: 192: 747: 264: 130: 550: 398: 215: 776: 648: 576: 796: 523: 503: 284: 235: 103:
Assume a uniform cloud that extends infinitely in the horizontal plane, also assume that the particle size distribution peaks near an average value of
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Rosenfeld, D. (2006). "Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Control of Earth Radiation and Latent Heat Release Budgets".
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This illustrates the Twomey Effect mathematically, that is, for a constant liquid water content,
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Taking our assumptions into account we can combine the previous two equations to yield
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Hartmann, Dennis L. Global Physical Climatology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. Print.
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Effect concerning the increase of solar radiation reflected by clouds
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can be seen as lines in these clouds over the Atlantic Ocean on the
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Twomey, S. (December 1974). "Pollution and the planetary albedo".
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10.1175/1520-0469(1977)034<1149:TIOPOT>2.0.CO;2
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of CCN can lead to formation of more cloud droplets with a
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or absorbing radiation by such particles not in clouds.
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The formula for the liquid water content of a cloud is
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This is an indirect effect (or 841:IPCC 4th Assessment Report, 2005 68:Cloud droplets normally form on 848: 28:East Coast of the United States 835: 667: 604: 463: 335: 250: 169: 116: 1: 828: 98: 49:, may increase the amount of 881:10.1016/0004-6981(74)90004-3 7: 801: 10: 1062: 624:and from the equation for 259:{\displaystyle {\bar {r}}} 125:{\displaystyle {\bar {r}}} 990:10.1007/s11214-006-9051-8 946:10.1007/s11214-006-9053-6 545:{\displaystyle \rho _{L}} 400:is the density of water. 393:{\displaystyle \rho _{L}} 40:cloud condensation nuclei 38:describes how additional 888:Twomey, S. (July 1977). 792: 772: 743: 696: 644: 615: 572: 546: 519: 499: 476: 394: 364: 280: 260: 231: 217:is the optical depth, 211: 188: 126: 31: 1036:Atmospheric radiation 1026:Cloud and fog physics 793: 773: 744: 697: 645: 616: 573: 547: 520: 500: 477: 395: 365: 281: 261: 232: 212: 210:{\displaystyle \tau } 189: 127: 42:(CCN), possibly from 22: 961:Lohmann, U. 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Ship tracks
East Coast of the United States
cloud condensation nuclei
anthropogenic
pollution
solar radiation
clouds
radiative forcing
scattering
aerosol
number density
smaller size
optical depth
cloud albedo
clouds appear whiter
number density
Albrecht effect
Sulfate
Aerosols and soot
Contrail
Bibcode
1974AtmEn...8.1251T
doi
10.1016/0004-6981(74)90004-3
"The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds"
Bibcode
1977JAtS...34.1149T
doi
10.1175/1520-0469(1977)034<1149:TIOPOT>2.0.CO;2

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