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The effect of anthropogenic sulfate and soot aerosol on the clear sky planetary radiation budget
Jim Haywood,Keith P. Shine +1 more
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In this paper, the impact of carbonaceous soot within the troposphere can significantly modify the clear-sky radiative forcing, and the effect of an assumed soot/sulfate mass ratio of between 0.05 and 0.1 is examined.Abstract:
Carbonaceous soot within the troposphere can significantly modify the clear-sky radiative forcing. Using an extension to a simple radiation calculation and two model-derived sulfate aerosol data sets, the impact of an assumed soot/sulfate mass ratio of between 0.05 and 0.1 is examined. Fossil fuel derived soot causes a positive global-mean radiative forcing which for one data set ranges from +0.03 to +0.24Wm−2; the lower estimate is for an external mixture with a soot/sulfate ratio of 0.05 and the upper estimate is for an internal mixture and a soot/sulfate ratio of 0.10. These values compare to a global-mean radiative forcing of −0.34Wm−2 due to sulfate aerosol. Soot also significantly reduces the interhemispherical difference in the radiative forcing due to sulfate aerosol. The nature and amount of soot must be well established if the climatic role of tropospheric aerosols is to be fully understood.read more
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Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing
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Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an assessment of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption; influence on liquid, mixed phase, and ice clouds; and deposition on snow and ice.
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Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review
Maria Kanakidou,John H. Seinfeld,Spyros N. Pandis,Ian Barnes,Frank Dentener,Maria Cristina Facchini,R. Van Dingenen,Barbara Ervens,Athanasios Nenes,Claus J. Nielsen,Erik Swietlicki,J. P. Putaud,Yves Balkanski,Sandro Fuzzi,J. Horth,Geert K. Moortgat,R. Winterhalter,Cathrine Lund Myhre,Kostas Tsigaridis,Elisabetta Vignati,Euripides G. Stephanou,J. Wilson +21 more
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.
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Global indirect aerosol effects: a review
Ulrike Lohmann,Johann Feichter +1 more
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Light Absorption by Carbonaceous Particles: An Investigative Review
Tami C. Bond,Robert Bergström +1 more
TL;DR: The optical properties of light-absorbing, carbonaceous substance often called "soot", "black carbon", or "carbon black" have been the subject of some debate as discussed by the authors.
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