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Aerosol absorption in global models from AeroCom phase III
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Bjørn H. Samset
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Gunnar Myhre
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Jonas Gliß
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Susanne E. Bauer
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Huisheng Bian
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore County, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Mian Chin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Ramiro Checa-Garcia
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Paul Ginoux
NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Zak Kipling
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Alf Kirkevåg
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Harri Kokkola
Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Finnish
Meteorological Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Philippe Le Sager
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Marianne T. Lund
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Hitoshi Matsui
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Twan van Noije
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Dirk J. L. Olivié
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Samuel Remy
HYGEOS, Lille, France
Michael Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Philip Stier
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Camilla W. Stjern
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Toshihiko Takemura
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 6–1
Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
Kostas Tsigaridis
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York,
USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Svetlana G. Tsyro
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Duncan Watson-Parris
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
Absorption of shortwave radiation by aerosols can modify precipitation and clouds but is poorly constrained in models. A total of 15 different aerosol models from AeroCom phase III have reported total aerosol absorption, and for the first time, 11 of these models have reported in a consistent experiment the contributions to absorption from black carbon, dust, and organic aerosol. Here, we document the model diversity in aerosol absorption.
Absorption of shortwave radiation by aerosols can modify precipitation and clouds but is poorly...
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