Description
A veritable handbook containing comprehensive tables of data on tropospheric aerosol types, global distribution and radiation characteristics formatted for general circulation models. Derives one such model and provides guidelines for deriving others. Critically reviews the literature on sources, formation mechanisms and physico-chemistry of tropospheric aerosols. The data are vital to engineers working in atmospheric beam propagation and detection systems, as well as to climatologists, meteorologists and atmospheric scientists in general.
Contents
- Part I. A Global Aerosol Climatology
- Need For and Approaches To a Global Climatology of Aerosols
- Atmospheric Aerosols: Characterization
- Requirements of a Global Aerosol Climatology
- A Global Aerosol Model
- Computation of the Radiative Characteristics
- Effects of Relative Humidity on the Aerosol Properties
- Results and Discussion
- Summary and Outlooks
- Part II. Tables of the Radiative Characteristics of Aerosol Components and Aerosol Types
- Part III. Raw Data for Computing Global Radiative Characteristics
- Subject Index
- Author Index
ISBN 0-937194-22-0, 1991, Hardcover, 561 pages
