Aerosol Solar and Infrared Radiative Forcing

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Aerosol Solar and Infrared Radiative
Forcing

• Krzysztof Markowicz
• Institute of Geophysics
• Warsaw University

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Objectives

• Solar aerosol direct effect
• Infrared (thermal) aerosol direct effect
• Influence of the relative humidity on the aerosol
  optical properties and aerosol forcing.

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Northwest African Dust stormSeaWIFS, 2 Mar 2003
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Experiments

• INDOEX, 1999
• ACE-Asia, 2001
• MINOS, Crete 2001

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Collaboration with Naval Research Laboratory

• 4 months visit in NRL,Monterey 2002
• ACE-Asia and MINOS projects
• Collaboration with P. Flatau and D. Westphal
• COAMPS transport model
• 7 joint publications (Science, GRL, JGR,...)
  accepted for publication

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Comparison of the solar aerosol forcing
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Solar and Infrared aerosol forcing during
ACE-Asia