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Smoke invigoration versus inhibition of clouds over the Amazon [1]

The effect of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is one of the most important and least understood aspects of human-induced climate change. Small changes in the amount of cloud coverage can produce a climate forcing equivalent in magnitude and opposite in sign to that caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and changes in cloud height can shift the effect of clouds from cooling to warming.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2008
Ilan Koren [2], Vanderlei Martins [3], Lorraine A. Remer & et al [4]
Science [5]
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Amazon [6], Climate Change [7], Climate Science [8], Green House Gases [9], Aerosols [10], Global Warming [11]
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