Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

J Li, BE Carlson, YL Yung, D Lv, J Hansen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change

JF Kok, T Storelvmo, VA Karydis, AA Adebiyi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the world's main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, the
relative contributions of the world's major source regions to the global dust cycle remain …

[HTML][HTML] How well do the CMIP6 models simulate dust aerosols?

A Zhao, CL Ryder, LJ Wilcox - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Mineral dust impacts key processes in the Earth system, including the radiation budget,
clouds, and nutrient cycles. We evaluate dust aerosols in 16 models participating in the sixth …

Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC) 3 …

M Wendisch, M Brückner, S Crewell… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mechanisms behind the phenomenon of Arctic amplification are widely discussed. To
contribute to this debate, the (AC) 3 project was established in 2016 (www. ac3-tr. de/). It …

A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system

A Adebiyi, JF Kok, BJ Murray, CL Ryder, JBW Stuut… - Aeolian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mineral dust particles suspended in the atmosphere span more than three orders of
magnitude in diameter, from< 0.1 µm to more than 100 µm. This wide size range makes dust …

Sea spray aerosol (SSA) as a source of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) to the atmosphere: field evidence from long-term air monitoring

B Sha, JH Johansson, P Tunved… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The effective enrichment of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in sea spray aerosols (SSA)
demonstrated in previous laboratory studies suggests that SSA is a potential source of …

Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within‐The‐Atmosphere Observations: A Three‐Way Street

RA Kahn, E Andrews, CA Brock, M Chin… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its
magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable …

Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere,
atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution …