Aerosol Solar and Infrared Radiative Forcing

Krzysztof Markowicz

Institute of Geophysics

Warsaw University

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Objectives

Solar aerosol direct effect

Infrared (thermal) aerosol direct effect

Influence of the relative humidity on the aerosol optical properties and aerosol forcing.

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Northwest African Dust storm

SeaWIFS, 2 Mar 2003

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Experiments

INDOEX, 1999

ACE-Asia, 2001

MINOS, Crete 2001

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Collaboration with Naval Research Laboratory

4 months visit in NRL,Monterey 2002

ACE-Asia and MINOS projects

Collaboration with P. Flatau and D. Westphal

COAMPS transport model

7 joint publications (Science, GRL, JGR,...) accepted for publication

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Comparison of the solar aerosol forcing

Institute of Geophysics,

Warsaw University

Solar and Infrared aerosol forcing during ACE-Asia