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Climate-driven chemistry and aerosol feedbacks in CMIP6 Earth system models
Gillian Thornhill
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Dirk Olivié
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Ragnhild B. Skeie
CICERO – Centre for International Climate and Environmental
Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Alex Archibald
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge, UK
Susanne Bauer
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY, USA, USA
Ramiro Checa-Garcia
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Stephanie Fiedler
Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Gerd Folberth
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Ada Gjermundsen
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Larry Horowitz
GFDL/NOAA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Jean-Francois Lamarque
National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Martine Michou
CNRM, Meteo-France, Toulouse CEDEX, France
Jane Mulcahy
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Pierre Nabat
CNRM, Meteo-France, Toulouse CEDEX, France
Vaishali Naik
GFDL/NOAA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Fiona M. O'Connor
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Fabien Paulot
GFDL/NOAA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Michael Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Catherine E. Scott
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Roland Séférian
CNRM, Meteo-France, Toulouse CEDEX, France
Chris Smith
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Toshihiko Takemura
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University,
Fukuoka, Japan
Simone Tilmes
National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Kostas Tsigaridis
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY, USA, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
James Weber
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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We find that increased temperatures affect aerosols and reactive gases by changing natural emissions and their rates of removal from the atmosphere. Changing the composition of these species in the atmosphere affects the radiative budget of the climate system and therefore amplifies or dampens the climate response of climate models of the Earth system. This study found that the largest effect is a dampening of climate change as warmer temperatures increase the emissions of cooling aerosols.
We find that increased temperatures affect aerosols and reactive gases by changing natural...
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