Abstract
Aerosols have a pronounced influence on the climate system, both directly by scattering and absorbing incoming solar radiation (Hess et al., 1998; Haywood and Boucher, 2000; IPCC, 2007) and indirectly by altering cloud properties (Rosenfeld et al., 2008; 5 Kaufman et al., 2002). The combined climate effect of aerosols is
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