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Robert J. Charlson
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 36
Citations - 15859
Robert J. Charlson is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aerosol & Cloud albedo. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 36 publications receiving 15030 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Charlson include Stockholm University & University of Helsinki.
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Oceanic phytoplankton, atmospheric sulphur, cloud albedo and climate
TL;DR: The major source of cloud-condensation nuclei (CCN) over the oceans appears to be dimethylsulphide, which is produced by planktonic algae in sea water and oxidizes in the atmosphere to form a sulphate aerosol as mentioned in this paper.
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Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols
Robert J. Charlson,Stephen E. Schwartz,J. M. Hales,Robert D. Cess,James A. Coakley,James Hansen,D. J. Hofmann +6 more
TL;DR: The aerosol forcing has likely offset global greenhouse warming to a substantial degree, however, differences in geographical and seasonal distributions of these forcings preclude any simple compensation.
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A new perspective on recent global warming: asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature
Thomas R. Karl,Philip Jones,Richard W. Knight,George Kukla,Neil Plummer,Vyacheslav Razuvayev,Kevin P. Gallo,Janette Lindseay,Robert J. Charlson,Thomas C. Peterson +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a large number of atmospheric and surface boundary conditions are shown to differentially affect the maximum and minimum temperature in all seasons and in most of the regions studied, and the decrease in the daily temperature range is partially related to increases in cloud cover.
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THE CALIPSO MISSION: A Global 3D View of Aerosols and Clouds
David M. Winker,Jacques Pelon,James A. Coakley,Steven A. Ackerman,Robert J. Charlson,Peter R. Colarco,Pierre H. Flamant,Qiang Fu,Raymond M. Hoff,Chieko Kittaka,T. L. Kubar,H. Le Treut,M. P. McCormick,Gérard Mégie,Lamont R. Poole,Kathleen A. Powell,Chip Trepte,Mark A. Vaughan,Bruce A. Wielicki +18 more
TL;DR: CALIPSO as mentioned in this paper is a two-wavelength, polarization-sensitive lidar, along with two passive sensors operating in the visible and thermal infrared spectral regions for long-term atmospheric measurements from Earth's orbit.
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Perturbation of the northern hemisphere radiative balance by backscattering from anthropogenic sulfate aerosols
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional global model for estimating the SO 4 = aerosol mass concentration, along with previously-acquired information on the scattering and back-scattering coefficients per unit mass concentration are presented.