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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ab21e7 |
Efficacy of black carbon aerosols: the role of shortwave cloud feedback | |
Modak, Angshuman; Bala, Govindasamy | |
2019-08-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 14期号:8 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | India |
英文摘要 | Using idealized climate model simulations, we investigate the effectiveness of black carbon (BC) aerosols in warming the planet relative to CO2 forcing. We find that a 60-fold increase in the BC aerosol mixing ratio from the present-day levels leads to the same equilibrium global mean surface warming (similar to 4.1 K) as for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, the radiative forcing is larger (similar to 5.5 Wm(-2)) in the BC case relative to the doubled CO2 case (similar to 3.8 Wm(-2)) for the same surface warming indicating the efficacy (a metric for measuring the effectiveness) of BC aerosols to be less than CO2. The lower efficacy of BC aerosols is related to the differences in the shortwave (SW) cloud feedback: negative in the BC case but positive in the CO2 case. In the BC case, the negative SW cloud feedback is related to an increase in the tropical low clouds which is associated with a northward shift (similar to 7 degrees) of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Further, we show that in the BC case fast precipitation suppression offsets the surface temperature mediated precipitation response and causes similar to 8% net decline in the global mean precipitation. Our study suggests that a feedback between the location of ITCZ and the interhemispheric temperature could exist, and the consequent SW cloud feedback could be contributing to the lower efficacy of BC aerosols. Therefore, an improved representation of low clouds in climate models is likely the key to understand the global climate sensitivity to BC aerosols. |
英文关键词 | black carbon aerosols climate feedback climate sensitivity efficacy of forcings ITCZ shift cloud feedback hydrological cycle |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000478679100001 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE RESPONSE ; MODEL |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/185635 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | Indian Inst Sci, Ctr Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Modak, Angshuman,Bala, Govindasamy. Efficacy of black carbon aerosols: the role of shortwave cloud feedback[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,14(8). |
APA | Modak, Angshuman,&Bala, Govindasamy.(2019).Efficacy of black carbon aerosols: the role of shortwave cloud feedback.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,14(8). |
MLA | Modak, Angshuman,et al."Efficacy of black carbon aerosols: the role of shortwave cloud feedback".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 14.8(2019). |
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