In aerosol hot spots around the globe, solar radiation is dimmed down on its way to the Earth's surface. The resulting surface cooling turns out to be almost in balance with heating of the atmosphere due to black carbon.
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Seinfeld, J. Black carbon and brown clouds. Nature Geosci 1, 15–16 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.62
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