Articles | Volume 22, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12221-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12221-2022
Research article
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21 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2022

Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

Johannes Quaas, Hailing Jia, Chris Smith, Anna Lea Albright, Wenche Aas, Nicolas Bellouin, Olivier Boucher, Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, Piers M. Forster, Daniel Grosvenor, Stuart Jenkins, Zbigniew Klimont, Norman G. Loeb, Xiaoyan Ma, Vaishali Naik, Fabien Paulot, Philip Stier, Martin Wild, Gunnar Myhre, and Michael Schulz

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on acp-2022-295', Michael Diamond, 30 May 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on acp-2022-295', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Jun 2022
  • RC3: 'Comment on acp-2022-295', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Jul 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Johannes Quaas on behalf of the Authors (25 Aug 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (27 Aug 2022) by Yuan Wang
AR by Johannes Quaas on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2022)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Pollution particles cool climate and offset part of the global warming. However, they are washed out by rain and thus their effect responds quickly to changes in emissions. We show multiple datasets to demonstrate that aerosol emissions and their concentrations declined in many regions influenced by human emissions, as did the effects on clouds. Consequently, the cooling impact on the Earth energy budget became smaller. This change in trend implies a relative warming.
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