Articles | Volume 20, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8139-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8139-2020
Research article
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13 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2020

Combining atmospheric and snow radiative transfer models to assess the solar radiative effects of black carbon in the Arctic

Tobias Donth, Evelyn Jäkel, André Ehrlich, Bernd Heinold, Jacob Schacht, Andreas Herber, Marco Zanatta, and Manfred Wendisch

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Solar radiative effects of Arctic black carbon (BC) particles (suspended in the atmosphere and in the surface snowpack) were quantified under cloudless and cloudy conditions. An atmospheric and a snow radiative transfer model were coupled to account for radiative interactions between both compartments. It was found that (i) the warming effect of BC in the snowpack overcompensates for the atmospheric BC cooling effect, and (ii) clouds tend to reduce the atmospheric BC cooling and snow BC warming.
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