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DOI | 10.1029/2018JD029808 |
Perturbations to Global Energy Budget Due to Absorbing and Scattering Aerosols | |
Suzuki, Kentaroh1; Takemura, Toshihiko2 | |
2019-02-27 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
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ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 124期号:4页码:2194-2209 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Japan |
英文摘要 | Impacts of absorbing and scattering aerosols on global energy balance are investigated with a global climate model. A series of sensitivity experiments perturbing emissions of black carbon and sulfate aerosols individually is conducted with the model to explore how components of global energy budget change in response to the instantaneous radiative forcing due to the two types of aerosols. It is demonstrated how differing vertical structures of the instantaneous radiative forcing between the two aerosols induce distinctively different proportions of fast and slow climate responses through different energy redistribution into atmosphere and surface. These characteristics are quantified in the form of the whole picture of global energy budget perturbations normalized by the top-of-atmosphere instantaneous radiative forcing. The energy budget perturbation per unit instantaneous forcing thus quantified reveals relative magnitudes of changes to different component fluxes in restoring atmospheric and surface energy balances through fast and slow responses. The normalized picture then directly links the initial forcing to the eventual climate responses, thereby explaining how starkly different responses of the global-mean temperature and precipitation are induced by the two types of aerosols. The study underscores a critical need for better quantifications of the forcings' vertical structure and atmospheric rapid adjustment for reliable estimates of climatic impact of absorbing and scattering aerosols. In particular, cloud responses through the indirect and semidirect effects and the sensible heat decrease in response to stabilized atmosphere due to the black carbon heating are identified as key uncertain components in the global energy budget perturbation. Plain Language Summary The minute particles suspended in the atmosphere, called aerosols, have warming or cooling impacts on climate depending on their color that determines their ability to scatter or absorb the sunlight. The black aerosols, like black carbon, enhance the heating on atmosphere and reduce the sunlight reaching the surface through absorbing the sunlight, while the white aerosols, like sulfate, directly cool the surface with little influence on atmosphere through scattering the sunlight. This study analyzes simulations with a global climate model to quantify how the two types of aerosols with such different characteristics modulate the Earth's energy budget differently to induce distinctively different responses of the global-mean temperature and precipitation. The results explain why the global temperature response to perturbations of black carbon tends to be muted in contrast to the pronounced response to perturbations of sulfate. The energy budget picture also illustrates how increased black carbon can increase and decrease the global precipitation through two competing pathways to result a net decrease while increased sulfate monotonically decreases the global precipitation. The findings of this study provide a theoretical basis for better quantifying the climate change driven by future emission changes of different types of aerosols. |
英文关键词 | short-lived climate forcer aerosol energy budget global climate modeling precipitation |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000461856300018 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE ; SIMULATION ; MODEL ; PDRMIP |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | 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/34069 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Tokyo, Atmosphere & Ocean Res Inst, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; 2.Kyushu Univ, Res Inst Appl Mech, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Suzuki, Kentaroh,Takemura, Toshihiko. Perturbations to Global Energy Budget Due to Absorbing and Scattering Aerosols[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2019,124(4):2194-2209. |
APA | Suzuki, Kentaroh,&Takemura, Toshihiko.(2019).Perturbations to Global Energy Budget Due to Absorbing and Scattering Aerosols.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,124(4),2194-2209. |
MLA | Suzuki, Kentaroh,et al."Perturbations to Global Energy Budget Due to Absorbing and Scattering Aerosols".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 124.4(2019):2194-2209. |
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