The role of clouds and aerosols in the climate system is still one of the largest uncertainties in the prediction of the future development of climate and in the understanding of the water cycle.
Although the Earth’s atmosphere is composed mostly of gases, aerosols and clouds have a large impact on the Earth’s radiation budget. The investigation of the climate impact of aerosols and clouds is ...
A considerable fraction of the mass of secondary aerosols is formed through cloud processing (Ervens et al. 2011). Secondary aerosols are small; they range in size from a few nanometres up to 1 ...