Biomass burning aerosol radiative effects  in the Southeast Atlantic depend strongly on meteorological forcing method

Giuffrida, Eric; Johnson, Kate; Tatro, Tyler; Zuidema, Paquita; Gordon, Hamish

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-14879-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-14879-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-14879-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 21

Research article

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05 Nov 2025

Research article |

| 05 Nov 2025

Biomass burning aerosol radiative effects in the Southeast Atlantic depend strongly on meteorological forcing method

Eric Giuffrida, Kate Johnson, Tyler Tatro, Paquita Zuidema, and Hamish Gordon

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RC1:
'Comment on egusphere-2025-511', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Apr 2025

My review is attached as a supplement.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-511-RC1
- RC2: 'Reply on RC1', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Apr 2025
  
  my attached review.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-511-RC2
RC3: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-511', Mónica Zamora Zapata, 14 Apr 2025

Please see the attached PDF.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-511-RC3
AC1: 'AC', Eric Giuffrida, 10 Jun 2025

We would like to extend our gratitude to both reviewers for taking the time to review our paper. The final author comments in response to both referee comments are listed below. We will upload both a marked-up version, where all text additions and subtractions appear in blue, and a final version that excludes the mark-up. The lines referenced below reference the marked-up version. Thanks again, and please let us know if there are any outstanding questions or comments.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-511-AC1
AC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2025-511', Eric Giuffrida, 30 Jun 2025

The lines shifted very slightly between posted AC1 and uploading the manuscript. To accommodate this, we uploaded AC2 which contains all the same comment responses as AC1 but with updates line number references.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-511-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Eric Giuffrida on behalf of the Authors (30 Jun 2025) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Aug 2025) by N'Datchoh Evelyne Touré

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (03 Aug 2025)

RR by Mónica Zamora Zapata (11 Aug 2025)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Aug 2025) by N'Datchoh Evelyne Touré

AR by Eric Giuffrida on behalf of the Authors (27 Aug 2025) Author's response Manuscript

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Smoke aerosols emitted from summer African fires periodically travel across the ocean and interact with one of Earth’s largest permanent cloud decks. Researchers quantify the heating and cooling effects of this interaction using climate models. However, the use of different historical weather matching methods has produced a large variation in results. Here, we test method variations commonly used today and conclude with new guidelines for achieving the most accurate results.

Biomass burning aerosol radiative effects in the Southeast Atlantic depend strongly on meteorological forcing method

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