The regional impact of urban emissions on climate over central Europe: present and future emission perspectives

Huszár, Peter; Belda, Michal; Karlický, Jan; Pišoft, Petr; Halenka, Tomáš

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12993-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12993-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12993-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

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21 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 21 Oct 2016

The regional impact of urban emissions on climate over central Europe: present and future emission perspectives

Peter Huszár, Michal Belda, Jan Karlický, Petr Pišoft, and Tomáš Halenka

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RC1: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'authors' final response to referee #3 comments', Peter Huszar, 24 Aug 2016
RC2: 'Referee comment for "The regional impact of urban emissions on climate over central Europe: present and future emission perspective"', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'authors' final response to referee #1 comments', Peter Huszar, 24 Aug 2016

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AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (01 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Sep 2016) by Yun Qian

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (15 Sep 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Sep 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Oct 2016) by Yun Qian

Short summary

Using an online coupled system of a regional climate model and chemistry transport model we investigated the radiative/climate impact of short-lived pollutants directly emitted by urban areas and those secondarily formed, focusing on the area of central Europe. We found that the direct/indirect effects of aerosols dominate, causing small but statistically significant cooling in summer and winter (up to −0.04 K). The radiative impact of ozone changes remains negligible.