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Research article
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20 Feb 2020
Research article |
| 20 Feb 2020
Modeling the global radiative effect of brown carbon: a potentially larger heating source in the tropical free troposphere than black carbon
Aoxing Zhang
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Yuzhong Zhang
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
now at: School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310024, China
Rodney J. Weber
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Yongjia Song
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Ziming Ke
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
now at: Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843, USA
Yufei Zou
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
now at: Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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Black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) are light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols. We developed a module to simulate the emissions, atmospheric processing and direct radiative effect of BrC in the Community Earth System Model (CESM). We found that globally BrC is a significant absorber and is more centered in the tropical free troposphere compared to BC. The contribution of BrC heating to the Hadley circulation and latitudinal expansion of the tropics is comparable to BC heating.
Black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) are light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols. We developed...
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