Elisabetta Vignati

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed existing knowledge with regard to organic aerosol (OA) of importance for global climate modelling and defined critical gaps needed to reduce the involved uncertainties, and synthesized the information to provide a continuous analysis of the flow from the emitted material to the atmosphere up to the point of the climate impact of the produced organic aerosols.

TL;DR: 14 measures targeting methane and BC emissions that reduce projected global mean warming ~0.5°C by 2050 and increases annual crop yields by 30 to 135 million metric tons due to ozone reductions in 2030 and beyond are identified.

TL;DR: The aerosol-climate modelling system ECHAM5-HAM as mentioned in this paper is based on a flexible microphysical approach and, as the number of externally imposed parameters is minimised, allows the application in a wide range of climate regimes.

TL;DR: The literature on atmospheric particulate maffer (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500-2000 papers per year in the refereed literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrated microphysical and dynamical picture of the global tropospher ic aerosol system by reviewing the microphysical processes and those elements of the general circulation that determine the size distribution and chemical composition of the aerosol.