[HTML][HTML] Aerosol demasking enhances climate warming over South Asia

H Nair, K Budhavant, MR Manoj, A Andersson… - NPJ climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic aerosols mask the climate warming caused by greenhouse gases (GHGs). In
the absence of observational constraints, large uncertainties plague the estimates of this …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol radiative forcings induced by substantial changes in anthropogenic emissions in China from 2008 to 2016

M Liu, H Matsui - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic emissions in China play an important role in altering the global radiation
budget. Over the past decade, the strong clean-air policies in China have resulted in …

COVID-19-related drop in anthropogenic aerosol emissions in China and corresponding cloud and climate effects

A Timmermann, SS Lee, JE Chu, E Chung, JY Lee - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive disruptions of public life on a global scale. To
halt the spread of the disease, China temporarily shut down parts of the manufacturing and …

[HTML][HTML] Hemispheric-wide climate response to regional COVID-19-related aerosol emission reductions: the prominent role of atmospheric circulation adjustments

NLS Fahrenbach, MA Bollasina - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The national and global restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden,
albeit temporary, emission reduction of many greenhouse gases (GHGs) and anthropogenic …

How well do Earth System Models reproduce observed aerosol changes during the Spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns?

RAR Digby, NP Gillett, AH Monahan… - …, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
One side effect of the Spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns was a rapid reduction in aerosol
and aerosol precursor emissions. These emission reductions provide a unique opportunity …

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the Indian summer monsoon

S Fadnavis, TP Sabin, A Rap, R Müller… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Aerosol concentrations over Asia play a key role in modulating the Indian summer monsoon
(ISM) rainfall. Lockdown measures imposed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] How well do Earth system models reproduce the observed aerosol response to rapid emission reductions? A COVID-19 case study

RAR Digby, NP Gillett, AH Monahan… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns led to a rapid reduction in aerosol and aerosol
precursor emissions. These emission reductions provide a unique opportunity for model …

The worldwide COVID-19 lockdown impacts on global secondary inorganic aerosols and radiative budget

T Sekiya, K Miyazaki, H Eskes, K Bowman, K Sudo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Global lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) led to air pollutant emission reductions. While the COVID-19 lockdown impacts on both …

Weakening aerosol direct radiative effects mitigate climate penalty on Chinese air quality

C Hong, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, SJ Davis, X Zhang… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Future climate change may worsen air quality in many regions. However, evaluations of this
'climate penalty'on air quality have typically not assessed the radiative effects of changes in …

Radiative forcing and climate response to projected 21st century aerosol decreases

DM Westervelt, LW Horowitz, V Naik… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
It is widely expected that global emissions of atmospheric aerosols and their precursors will
decrease strongly throughout the remainder of the 21st century, due to emission reduction …