The effect of smoke particles on clouds and climate forcing

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5332, 1997, Pages 1636-1639

  Kaufman, Yoram J ^a   Fraser, Robert S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD REFLECTANCE; DROPLET SIZE; SMOKE PARTICLE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLOUD; FIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0030748901     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5332.1636     Document Type: Article

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57. The satellite data were analyzed by S. Mattoo. The cloud detection was developed by M. Lawrence during a summer fellowship program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We thank J. Tucker for assistance with AVHRR data and acknowledge valuable comments from O. Boucher, P. V. Hobbs, Y. Joseph, M. D. King, Z. Levin, J. E. Penner, S. Platnick, L. A. Remer, and D. Tanré.