The present paper reviews existing knowledge with regard to Organic Aerosol (OA) of
importance for global climate modelling and defines critical gaps needed to reduce the …

Aerosols affect the climate system by changing cloud characteristics in many ways. They act
as cloud condensation and ice nuclei, they may inhibit freezing and they could have an …

A new global climate model, MRI-CGCM3, has been developed at the Meteorological
Research Institute (MRI). This model is an overall upgrade of MRI's former climate model …

Aerosol− cloud interactions account for the largest uncertainty in current estimates of
changes in radiative forcing according to the most recent IPCC report. 1 The term “aerosol …

Online coupled mesoscale meteorology atmospheric chemistry models have undergone a
rapid evolution in recent years. Although mainly developed by the air quality modelling …

Accurate predictions of aerosol/cloud interactions require simple, physically accurate
parameterizations of the cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity of aerosols. Current …

Organic aerosols (OA) play an important role in climate change. However, very few
calculations of global OA radiative forcing include secondary organic aerosol (SOA) or the …

Aerosol indirect effects continue to constitute one of the most important uncertainties for
anthropogenic climate perturbations. Within the international AEROCOM initiative, the …

The local and regional influence of elevated point sources on summertime aerosol forcing
and cloud-aerosol interactions in northeastern North America was investigated using the …

A plume rise algorithm for wildfires was included in WRF-Chem, and applied to look at the
impact of intense wildfires during the 2004 Alaska wildfire season on weather simulations …