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Science 11 January 1974:
Vol. 183. no. 4120, pp. 75 - 77
DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4120.75
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Aerosols and Climate

Petr Chyacutelek 1 and James A. Coakley Jr. 1

1 Advanced Study Program, National Centter for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80302

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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