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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7837-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7837-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
10 Jul 2024
Research article |
| 10 Jul 2024
| 10 Jul 2024
Decomposing the effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols based on CMIP6 Earth system models
Alkiviadis Kalisoras
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Aristeidis K. Georgoulias
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitris Akritidis
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Robert J. Allen
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Vaishali Naik
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Chaincy Kuo
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Sophie Szopa
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Pierre Nabat
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Dirk Olivié
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Twan van Noije
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Philippe Le Sager
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
David Neubauer
Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Naga Oshima
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Jane Mulcahy
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Larry W. Horowitz
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prodromos Zanis
Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Data sets
CMIP6 Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip6/
Short summary
Effective radiative forcing (ERF) is a metric for estimating how human activities and natural agents change the energy flow into and out of the Earth’s climate system. We investigate the anthropogenic aerosol ERF, and we estimate the contribution of individual processes to the total ERF using simulations from Earth system models within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). Our findings highlight that aerosol–cloud interactions drive ERF variability during the last 150 years.
Effective radiative forcing (ERF) is a metric for estimating how human activities and natural...
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