Significant climate impacts of aerosol changes driven by growth in energy use and advances in emission control technology

Zhao, Alcide; Bollasina, Massimo A.; Crippa, Monica; Stevenson, David S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14517-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14517-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14517-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 23

Research article

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29 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 29 Nov 2019

Significant climate impacts of aerosol changes driven by growth in energy use and advances in emission control technology

Alcide Zhao, Massimo A. Bollasina, Monica Crippa, and David S. Stevenson

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to comments from Referee #1', Alcide Zhao, 25 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Reviewer's Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to comments from Referee #2', Alcide Zhao, 25 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Review of Zhao et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Aug 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to comments from Referee #3', Alcide Zhao, 25 Oct 2019
RC4: 'Review of Zhao et al.', Anonymous Referee #4, 17 Aug 2019
- AC4: 'Reply to comments from Referee #4', Alcide Zhao, 25 Oct 2019
AC5: 'Note on the revision', Alcide Zhao, 25 Oct 2019

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Emissions of aerosols over the recent past have been regulated largely by two policy-relevant drivers: energy-use growth and technology advances. These generate large and competing impacts on global radiation balance and climate, particularly over Asia, Europe, and the Arctic. This may help better assess and interpret future climate projections, and hence inform future climate change impact reduction strategies. Yet, it is pressing to better constrain various uncertainties related to aerosols.