Yves Balkanski

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: This article presented the global general circulation model IPSL-CM5 developed to study the long-term response of the climate system to natural and anthropogenic forcings as part of the 5th Phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5).

TL;DR: In this paper, the life cycle of dust, sea salt, sulfate, black carbon and particulate organic matter as simulated by sixteen global aerosol models has been analyzed and the differences among the results (model diversities) for sources and sinks, burdens, particle sizes, water uptakes, and spatial dispersals have been established.

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: In this article, the results of a broad intercomparison of a total of 15 global aerosol models within the AeroCom project are compared to observations related to desert dust aerosols, their direct radiative effect, and their impact on the biogeochemical cycle, i.e., aerosol optical depth and dust deposition.