Articles | Volume 20, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10063-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10063-2020
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28 Aug 2020
ACP Letters | Highlight paper |  | 28 Aug 2020

The value of remote marine aerosol measurements for constraining radiative forcing uncertainty

Leighton A. Regayre, Julia Schmale, Jill S. Johnson, Christian Tatzelt, Andrea Baccarini, Silvia Henning, Masaru Yoshioka, Frank Stratmann, Martin Gysel-Beer, Daniel P. Grosvenor, and Ken S. Carslaw

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The amount of energy reflected back into space because of man-made particles is highly uncertain. Processes related to naturally occurring particles cause most of the uncertainty, but these processes are poorly constrained by present-day measurements. We show that measurements over the Southern Ocean, far from pollution sources, efficiently reduce climate model uncertainties. Our results pave the way to designing experiments and measurement campaigns that reduce this uncertainty even further.
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