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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11159-2019
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11159-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
04 Sep 2019
Research article |
| 04 Sep 2019
| 04 Sep 2019
The importance of the representation of air pollution emissions for the modeled distribution and radiative effects of black carbon in the Arctic
Jacob Schacht
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
Bernd Heinold
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
Johannes Quaas
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
John Backman
Atmospheric Composition Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Ribu Cherian
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Andre Ehrlich
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Andreas Herber
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Wan Ting Katty Huang
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Yutaka Kondo
National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
Andreas Massling
Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
P. R. Sinha
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Bernadett Weinzierl
Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Marco Zanatta
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Ina Tegen
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
Data sets
ECHAM-HAM simulations for evaluation and quantification of BC effects in the Arctic under different emission data sets J. Schacht, H. Bernd, and I. Tegen https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903547
Short summary
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of Earth. Black carbon (BC) aerosol contributes to this Arctic amplification by direct and indirect aerosol radiative effects while distributed in air or deposited on snow and ice. The aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM is used to estimate direct aerosol radiative effect (DRE). Airborne and near-surface BC measurements are used to evaluate the model and give an uncertainty range for the burden and DRE of Arctic BC caused by different emission inventories.
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of Earth. Black carbon (BC) aerosol contributes to...
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