Articles | Volume 18, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17745-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17745-2018
Research article
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14 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 14 Dec 2018

Radiative effect and climate impacts of brown carbon with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5)

Hunter Brown, Xiaohong Liu, Yan Feng, Yiquan Jiang, Mingxuan Wu, Zheng Lu, Chenglai Wu, Shane Murphy, and Rudra Pokhrel

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In climate models, organic carbon (OC) in wildfire smoke has been treated as an atmospheric cooling component by reflecting sunlight back to space. This study incorporates the observationally identified absorbing brown carbon component of OC into the Community Earth System Model, improving the agreement between the model and observations and effectively increasing absorption of solar radiation. This change contributes to altered atmospheric dynamics and changes in cloud cover in the model.
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