Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

D Liu, C He, JP Schwarz, X Wang - NPJ climate and atmospheric …, 2020 - nature.com
Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing
organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating …

Ice‐nucleating particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and modeling research needs

SM Burrows, CS McCluskey, G Cornwell… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes,
with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Historical and future changes in air pollutants from CMIP6 models

ST Turnock, RJ Allen, M Andrews… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Poor air quality is currently responsible for large impacts on human health across the world.
In addition, the air pollutants ozone (O3) and particulate matter less than 2.5 µm in diameter …

The Met Office Unified Model global atmosphere 7.0/7.1 and JULES global land 7.0 configurations

D Walters, AJ Baran, I Boutle, M Brooks… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
We describe Global Atmosphere 7.0 and Global Land 7.0 (GA7. 0/GL7. 0), the latest science
configurations of the Met Office Unified Model (UM) and the Joint UK Land Environment …

Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within‐The‐Atmosphere Observations: A Three‐Way Street

RA Kahn, E Andrews, CA Brock, M Chin… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its
magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3. 1 CMIP6 historical simulations

JP Mulcahy, C Johnson, CG Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
We document and evaluate the aerosol schemes as implemented in the physical and Earth
system models, the Global Coupled 3.1 configuration of the Hadley Centre Global …

Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

Molecular identification of organic vapors driving atmospheric nanoparticle growth

C Mohr, JA Thornton, A Heitto, FD Lopez-Hilfiker… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Particles formed in the atmosphere via nucleation provide about half the number of
atmospheric cloud condensation nuclei, but in many locations, this process is limited by the …

Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere

GP Schill, KD Froyd, H Bian, A Kupc, C Williamson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Biomass burning emits~ 34–41 Tg yr− 1 of smoke aerosol to the atmosphere.
Biomass burning aerosol directly influences the Earth's climate by attenuation of solar and …