Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.2501k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 16, p. 2501-2504
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution-Urban And Regional, Global Change: Atmosphere
Scientific paper
Using reflectivity measurements from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), we show that over the months when stratocumulus clouds are prominent off the Peru Coast, the ultraviolet (UV) reflectance of two marine sites is consistently higher than that of the surroundings. The regions of reflectivity enhancement coincide with large anthropogenic sulfate aerosol emission sources, and the magnitude of the enhancement has a strong seasonal dependence that is related to the seasonal cloud movement. We propose the indirect aerosol effect as a plausible explanation for the reflectivity observations.
Kuang Zhiming
Yung Yuk L.
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