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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12465-2014
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-12465-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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27 Nov 2014
Research article |
| 27 Nov 2014
Modelled black carbon radiative forcing and atmospheric lifetime in AeroCom Phase II constrained by aircraft observations
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
A. Herber
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße 20, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
Y. Kondo
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Air Quality Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3H 5T4, Canada
N. Moteki
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
N. Oshima
Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan
J. P. Schwarz
Chemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Y. Balkanski
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S. E. Bauer
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Earth Institute, New York, NY, USA
N. Bellouin
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
T. K. Berntsen
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
H. Bian
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA
M. Chin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
T. Diehl
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
European Commission at the Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
R. C. Easter
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
S. J. Ghan
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
T. Iversen
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
ECMWF, Shinfield Park, RG2 9AX, Reading, UK
A. Kirkevåg
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
J.-F. Lamarque
NCAR Earth System Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
X. Liu
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
J. E. Penner
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
M. Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Ø. Seland
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
R. B. Skeie
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
T. Takemura
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
K. Tsigaridis
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Earth Institute, New York, NY, USA
K. Zhang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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Short summary
Far from black carbon (BC) emission sources, present climate models are unable to reproduce flight measurements. By comparing recent models with data, we find that the atmospheric lifetime of BC may be overestimated in models. By adjusting modeled BC concentrations to measurements in remote regions - over oceans and at high altitudes - we arrive at a reduced estimate for BC radiative forcing over the industrial era.
Far from black carbon (BC) emission sources, present climate models are unable to reproduce...
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