Increased Arctic cloud longwave emissivity associated with pollution from mid-latitudes

Timothy J. Garrett () and Chuanfeng Zhao
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Timothy J. Garrett: University of Utah
Chuanfeng Zhao: University of Utah

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7085, 787-789

Abstract: Where thin water clouds and anthropogenic aerosols are coincident, the increase to cloud emissivity from elevated haze levels is between 5 and 8 per cent, corresponding to an estimated surface warming in the Arctic under cloudy skies of between 1 and 1.6 degrees Celsius.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/nature04636

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