Hobbs P.V. (ed) Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions

International Geophysics Series, 1993, Volume 54. Academic Press, New York, London, 1993. – 250 pp.
Together with molecular scattering from gases, aerosol and clouds determine what fraction of the solar radiation incident at the top of the atmosphere reaches the earth's surface, and what fraction of the longwave radiation from the earth escapes to space. Consequently, aerosol and clouds play an important role in determining the earth's climate. Much remains to be learned about the properties of atmospheric aerosol and clouds and their effects on the radiative balance of the earth. The problem stems, in part at least, from the fact that unlike gases, aerosol and clouds are distributed very unevenly in the atmosphere. Also, many of the relevant properties of aerosol and clouds are not well denned. Finally, there are strong interactions between aerosol, clouds, and climate (see the accompanying figure), many of which we are only just beginning to understand, let alone incorporate into climate models.Tropospheric Aerosols / Ruprecht Jaenicke
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions / Peter V. Hobbs
Aerosol-Climate Interactions / Harshvardhan
Microphysical Structures of Stratiform and Cirrus Clouds / Andrew J. Heymsfield
Radiative Properties of Clouds / Michael D. King
Radiative Effects of Clouds on Earth's Climate / D. L. Hartmarm
Parameterization of Clouds in Large-Scale Numerical Models / Hilding Sundqvist
Stratospheric Aerosols and Clouds / M. Patrick McCormick, Pi-Huan Wang, and Lamont R. Poole