Aerosol Essay

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INTRODUCTION
Aerosol is a system of solid or liquid particles suspended in air or other gaseous environment. Aerosols vary in size and composition, they can be naturally or manmade generated. Aerosols are minute particles suspended in the atmosphere. When these particles are sufficiently large, we notice their presence as they scatter and absorb sunlight. Aerosols interact directly and indirectly with the earth’s radiation budget and climate. In direct effect the aerosols scatter sunlight. In indirect effect the aerosol can modify the size of cloud.
Any particle suspended in atmosphere is aerosol .it does not include water vapor and gas. There are the two different sources of aerosol one is the natural source and other is anthropological or the men made aerosol example of natural sources is volcanic aerosol, sea bridges and sea Sault. Because of the wind natural sources are more dominant and anthropologically affect the human health. Size of aerosol varies from 10^-3 to 10^2 um. Size is depending on the sources.
An aerosol is a colloid of fine solid …show more content…

Key parameters for determining the indirect effect are the effectiveness of an aerosol particle to act as a cloud condensation nucleus, which is a function of the size, chemical composition, mixing state and ambient environment. In particular, aerosols act as nuclei on which water condenses. A high concentration of aerosols thus leads to cloud that contain many more and hence smaller, water droplets then clouds with the same water content formed in cleaner areas. As such cloud are more highly reflecting, this induces a negative radiative forcing which is referred to as the first indirect, the cloud-albedo effect. The effect of aerosols on cloud’s height, lifetime and water content has classically being referred to as the second indirect

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