Brian Cairns Glory Interview Transcript

Narration: Brian Cairns

Transcript:

[Brian Cairns] Greenhouse gases we know really well, the aerosols we really don't know very well at all.

The biggest concern in terms of how aerosols affect the climate of the Earth is how much do they absorb, and that's typically a question of how much black carbon they have in them.

The purpose of Glory APS is to provide a good estimate of the amount that aerosols reflect and absorb sunlight, so that we will understand how the aerosols are affecting the climate that we live in.

The first thing that we really want to get out of APS is the aerosols and how they directly affect the climate, and then the second goal is to understand how the aerosols are impacting the clouds by looking in more detail at the size of the particles in clouds and how the aerosols nearby are affecting them.