title: Aerosols and climate.
abstract: To determine the effects of atmospheric aerosols on the radiative heating of the earth-atmosphere system, the radiative transfer equation is solved analytically in the two-stream approximation. It is found that the sign of the heating is independent of optical thickness of an aerosol layer and the amount of heating approaches a finite limit with increasing thickness of a layer. Limitations of the two-stream approximation are discussed.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chyacutelek
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Coakley