Where There’s Smoke, There’s Science

Multimedia · 05 October 2017

OSTI ID:1402067

Aiken, Allison ^[1]; Dubey, Manvendra

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1. USDOE

Cloaking urban areas and wildfire zones, tiny smoke particles suspended in the atmosphere have a sizeable effect on our climate. But the exact effect of many of these aerosols-such as how much sunlight they absorb, thus warming Earth, or reflecting back to space and so cooling Earth-is very uncertain.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1402067
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ATMOSPHERE
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FORENSIC SIGNATURES
GLOBAL WARMING AND COOLING
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