Decomposing the effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols based on CMIP6 Earth system models
Alkiviadis Kalisoras,Aristeidis K. Georgoulias,Dimitris Akritidis,Robert J. Allen,Vaishali Naik,Chaincy Kuo,Sophie Szopa,Pierre Nabat,Dirk Olivié,Twan van Noije,Philippe Le Sager,David Neubauer,Naga Oshima,Jane Mulcahy,Larry W. Horowitz,and Prodromos Zanis
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...