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RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH:
I. SCIENCE AND DESIGN 7 Aerosols INTRODUCTION Aerosols are
suspensions of solid or liquid particles in a gas. The particles
that compose the atmospheric aerosol range in size from
nanometers (in the case of large clusters of molecules) to tens
of micrometers (in the case of wind-driven sand). Some aerosols
(e.g., sea salt an