Oceans, which cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, produce sea spray aerosols—the natural aerosols with perhaps the biggest impact on the planet's radiation balance. "Yet we still don't ...

RF is defined as a change in the Earth's radiation balance due to a perturbation of anthropogenic or natural origin.. The total aerosol forcing probability density function (PDF), in addition to ...

Sources of Primary Aerosol Globally, natural sources of primary aerosol dominate the mass emissions of PM. Because approximately 75% of the Earth's surface is ocean, sea salt is the biggest ...

When the trade winds blow across the Atlantic from the east in the early summer, they carry almost exclusively natural aerosols with them – above all Sahara dust. At other times of the year, the winds ...