On the characteristics of aerosol indirect effect based on dynamic regimes  in global climate models

Zhang, Shipeng; Wang, Minghuai; Ghan, Steven J.; Ding, Aijun; Wang, Hailong; Zhang, Kai; Neubauer, David; Lohmann, Ulrike; Ferrachat, Sylvaine; Takeamura, Toshihiko; Gettelman, Andrew; Morrison, Hugh; Lee, Yunha; Shindell, Drew T.; Partridge, Daniel G.; Stier, Philip; Kipling, Zak; Fu, Congbin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2765-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2765-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2765-2016

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

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

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04 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2016

On the characteristics of aerosol indirect effect based on dynamic regimes in global climate models

Shipeng Zhang, Minghuai Wang, Steven J. Ghan, Aijun Ding, Hailong Wang, Kai Zhang, David Neubauer, Ulrike Lohmann, Sylvaine Ferrachat, Toshihiko Takeamura, Andrew Gettelman, Hugh Morrison, Yunha Lee, Drew T. Shindell, Daniel G. Partridge, Philip Stier, Zak Kipling, and Congbin Fu

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RC C8394: 'Comment on ``On the characteristics of aerosol indirect effect based on dynamic regimes in global climate models''‚ by Zhang et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Oct 2015
RC C8994: 'On the characteristics of aerosol indirect effect based on dynamic regimes in global climate models” by S. Zhang et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Nov 2015
AC C12114: 'response to the reviewer comments', Minghuai Wang, 30 Jan 2016

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AR by Minghuai Wang on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2016)

Short summary

The variation of aerosol indirect effects (AIE) in several climate models is investigated across different dynamical regimes. Regimes with strong large-scale ascent are shown to be as important as stratocumulus regimes in studying AIE. AIE over regions with high monthly large-scale surface precipitation rate contributes the most to the total aerosol indirect forcing. These results point to the need to reduce the uncertainty in AIE in different dynamical regimes.