Aerosol formation processes

Abstract

The basic conclusion to be drawn from analysis of the present ideas about mechanisms of formation, and properties of atmospheric aerosols is that these ideas are still far from being adequate. This situation is especially substantial in the context of consideration of aerosol as one of the most important climate-forming factors. On the one hand, it is obvious that an interactive consideration of aerosol as a climate-forming atmospheric component is needed, and on the other hand, there is no doubt that the still highly uncertain data on the global spatial-temporal variability of aerosol properties and mechanisms of formation do not permit an adequate parameterization of the aerosol dynamics in climate models.