Atmospheric aerosols and climate

Aerosols may also play an important role in cHmate change. Natural aerosol emissions, similar to those caused by volcano eruptions and forest fires, can affect the radiation balance around the planet and, therefore, affect global temperatures quite distinctly from the heat directly released in such phenomena. Atmospheric aerosol emissions resulting from human industrial and deforestation activities can have the same effect, distinct from the associated greenhouse gas emissions. In both cases, these aerosols influence climate through the scattering of solar radiation, the absorption of terrestrial radiation, and through their effects on the properties of clouds [128, 129]. 

Due to their importance in clouds, climate and climate change, significant efforts are now being made to incorporate aerosol chemistry and physics into regional and global climate models (see, for example. References [130-132]). 

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