Aerosols in the Atmosphere: Calculation of the Critical Absorption/Backscatter Ratio
- 13 December 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 186 (4168), 1034-1036
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.186.4168.1034
Abstract
The ratio of the absorption coefficient to the backscatter coefficient for which heating and cooling effects due to aerosols exactly balance at the earth's surface has been calculated with the use of a radiative-convective atmospheric model. The results are compared with those obtained from several simpler mean radiative-transfer models.Keywords
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