Atmospheric ice nucleation

DA Knopf, PA Alpert - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric ice nucleation is crucial for global precipitation and affects the structure, lifetime
and reflectivity of clouds, thereby impacting climate. Ice nucleates in various ways from …

[HTML][HTML] Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface

T Wang, Y Liu, H Cheng, Z Wang, H Fu… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The importance of dust heterogeneous oxidation in the removal of atmospheric SO 2 and
formation of sulfate aerosols is not adequately understood. In this study, the Fe-, Ti-, and Al …

Important ice processes are missed by the Community Earth system model in Southern Ocean mixed‐phase clouds: Bridging SOCRATES observations to model …

X Zhao, X Liu, S Burrows, PJ DeMott… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate models (GCMs) are challenged by difficulties in simulating cloud phase and
cloud radiative effect over the Southern Ocean (SO). Some of the new‐generation GCMs …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of different parameterization changes for the updated dust cycle modeling in the Community Atmosphere Model (version 6.1)

L Li, NM Mahowald, JF Kok, X Liu, M Wu… - Geoscientific Model …, 2022 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6. 1), the atmospheric component of the
Community Earth System Model (CESM; version 2.1), simulates the life cycle (emission …

The Role of In‐Cloud Wet Removal in Simulating Aerosol Vertical Profiles and Cloud Radiative Forcing

Y Shan, X Liu, L Lin, Z Ke, Z Lu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Among the physical processes controlling aerosol vertical profiles, in‐cloud wet removal is
of utmost importance while its representation in global climate models (GCMs) is crude. In …

[HTML][HTML] A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global climate models–Part II: Evaluation in the Community Earth System Model …

DM Leung, JF Kok, L Li, NM Mahowald… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Desert dust is an important atmospheric aerosol that affects the Earth's climate,
biogeochemistry, and air quality. However, current Earth system models (ESMs) struggle to …

Larger dust cooling effect estimated from regionally dependent refractive indices

H Wang, X Liu, C Wu, G Lin, T Dai… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The dust direct radiative effect (DRE) depends strongly on the dust particle size distribution
(PSD) and complex refractive index (CRI). Although recent studies constrained the dust PSD …

A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global climate models–Part II: evaluation in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)

DM Leung, JF Kok, L Li, NM Mahowald… - …, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Desert dust is an important atmospheric aerosol that affects the Earth's climate,
biogeochemistry, and air quality. However, current Earth system models (ESMs) struggle to …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the Vertical Distribution and Driving Factors of Aerosol and Ozone Precursors in Huaniao Island, China, Based on Ground-Based MAX-DOAS

J Ou, Q Hu, C Xing, Y Zhu, J Feng, X Ji, M Zhang… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urban air pollution has become a regional environmental problem. In order to explore
whether island areas were affected by the urban development of surrounding areas, in this …

Dust Transport from North Africa to the Middle East: Synoptic Patterns and Numerical Forecast

S Karami, DG Kaskaoutis, I Pytharoulis… - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Every year, large quantities of dust are transported from North Africa to the Americas,
Europe, and West Asia. The purpose of this study is to analyze four intense and pervasive …