How Asian aerosols impact regional surface temperatures across the globe

Merikanto, Joonas; Nordling, Kalle; Räisänen, Petri; Räisänen, Jouni; O'Donnell, Declan; Partanen, Antti-Ilari; Korhonen, Hannele

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5865-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5865-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5865-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 8

Research article

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19 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 19 Apr 2021

How Asian aerosols impact regional surface temperatures across the globe

Joonas Merikanto, Kalle Nordling, Petri Räisänen, Jouni Räisänen, Declan O'Donnell, Antti-Ilari Partanen, and Hannele Korhonen

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RC1: 'Review of Merikanto et al. acp-2020-1029', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Jan 2021
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Joonas Merikanto, 23 Feb 2021
RC2: 'Review 1', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Feb 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Joonas Merikanto, 23 Feb 2021

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AR by Joonas Merikanto on behalf of the Authors (03 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Mar 2021) by Kostas Tsigaridis

AR by Joonas Merikanto on behalf of the Authors (08 Mar 2021)

Short summary

Human-induced aerosols concentrate around their emission sources, yet their climate effects span far and wide. Here, we use two climate models to robustly identify the mechanisms of how Asian anthropogenic aerosols impact temperatures across the globe. A total removal of Asian anthropogenic aerosols increases the global temperatures by 0.26 ± 0.04 °C in the models, with the strongest warming taking place over the Arctic due to increased atmospheric transport of energy towards the high north.