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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13797-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13797-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
17 Sep 2021
Research article |
| 17 Sep 2021
| 17 Sep 2021
Distinct surface response to black carbon aerosols
School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Drew Shindell
Division of Earth and Climate Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC,
USA
Yuqiang Zhang
Division of Earth and Climate Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC,
USA
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Leverhulmn Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Department
of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete,
Chania, Greece
Jean-Francois Lamarque
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Gunnar Myhre
CICERO, Center for International Climate and Environment Research,
Oslo, Norway
Gregory Faluvegi
Center for Climate System Research, Columbia University, New York, NY,
USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Bjørn H. Samset
CICERO, Center for International Climate and Environment Research,
Oslo, Norway
Timothy Andrews
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Dirk Olivié
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Toshihiko Takemura
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Xuhui Lee
School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Data sets
Precipitation driver response model intercomparison project G. Myhre and P. Forster https://cicero.oslo.no/en/PDRMIP
Short summary
Previous studies showed that black carbon (BC) could warm the surface with decreased incoming radiation. With climate models, we found that the surface energy redistribution plays a more crucial role in surface temperature compared with other forcing agents. Though BC could reduce the surface heating, the energy dissipates less efficiently, which is manifested by reduced convective and evaporative cooling, thereby warming the surface.
Previous studies showed that black carbon (BC) could warm the surface with decreased incoming...
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