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Global Climate Change due to Aerosols

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Climate is not a well defined concept. Hantel et al.1 remark: ‘Climate is concerned with an object, the climate system, a method of analysis, proper statistics, and an effect, the impact of climate. This list is not exhaustive. More, and quite different categories have been used for defining climate.’ The climate system of the Earth—and this global climate is our subject—comprises the revelant subsystems: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the pertinent part of the lithosphere, and the biosphere.2 The WMO definition of climate reads: ‘Climate is the synthesis of weather over the whole of a period, essentially long enough to establish its statistical ensemble properties (mean values, variances, probabilities of extrema, etc.) and is largely independent of any instantaneous state.’3 Hence, the global climate comprises the local climates of all surface elements of the Earth over all seasons.

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Preining, O. (1994). Global Climate Change due to Aerosols. In: Hewitt, C.N., Sturges, W.T. (eds) Global Atmospheric Chemical Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3714-8_3

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