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Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory |
Aerosols U.S. Dept. of Commerce / NOAA / OAR / CMDL / AERO |
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Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory |
Aerosols U.S. Dept. of Commerce / NOAA / OAR / CMDL / AERO |
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measurements began at the CMDL baseline observatories in the mid-1970's
as part of the Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change (GMCC) program.
Since the inception of the program, scientific understanding of the
behavior of atmospheric aerosols has improved considerably. One lesson
learned is that human activities primarily influence aerosols on
regional/continental scales rather than global scales. The goals of this
regional-scale monitoring program are to characterize means,
variability, and trends
of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to
understand the factors that control these properties. CMDL's
measurements also provide ground-truth for satellite measurements and
global models, as well as key aerosol parameters for global-scale
models.
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