Articles | Volume 23, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023
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23 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2023

Local and remote climate impacts of future African aerosol emissions

Christopher D. Wells, Matthew Kasoar, Nicolas Bellouin, and Apostolos Voulgarakis

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The climate is altered by greenhouse gases and air pollutant particles, and such emissions are likely to change drastically in the future over Africa. Air pollutants do not travel far, so their climate effect depends on where they are emitted. This study uses a climate model to find the climate impacts of future African pollutant emissions being either high or low. The particles absorb and scatter sunlight, causing the ground nearby to be cooler, but elsewhere the increased heat causes warming.
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