Extratropical influence on the tropical rainfall distribution

SM Kang - Current Climate Change Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review focuses on recent progress in understanding the
extratropical influence on the annual-and zonal-mean intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) …

Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol

AIL Williams, P Stier, G Dagan… - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Over the coming decades, it is expected that the spatial pattern of anthropogenic aerosol will
change dramatically and the global aerosol composition will become relatively more …

Source apportionment of black carbon aerosols from light absorption observation and source-oriented modeling: an implication in a coastal city in China

J Deng, H Guo, H Zhang, J Zhu… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon (BC) is the most important light-absorbing aerosol in the atmosphere.
However, sources of atmospheric BC aerosols are largely uncertain, making it difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] Differing impacts of black carbon and sulfate aerosols on global precipitation and the ITCZ location via atmosphere and ocean energy perturbations

S Zhao, K Suzuki - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Differing Impacts of Black Carbon and Sulfate Aerosols on Global Precipitation and the ITCZ
Location via Atmosphere and Ocean Energy Perturbations in: Journal of Climate Volume 32 …

Contrasting response of precipitation to aerosol perturbation in the tropics and extratropics explained by energy budget considerations

G Dagan, P Stier… - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation plays a crucial role in the Earth's energy balance, the water cycle, and the
global atmospheric circulation. Aerosols, by direct interaction with radiation and by serving …

Detecting cross‐equatorial wind change as a fingerprint of climate response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing

H Wang, SP Xie, H Tokinaga, Q Liu… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic aerosols are a major driver of the twetieth century climate change. In climate
models, the aerosol forcing, larger in the Northern than Southern Hemispheres, induces an …

The potential of absorbing aerosols to enhance extreme precipitation

G Dagan, E Eytan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the impact of various climate forcing agents, such as aerosols, on extreme
precipitation is socially and scientifically vital. While anthropogenic absorbing aerosols …

[HTML][HTML] The vertical structure of tropospheric water vapor: Comparing radiative and ocean-driven climate changes

BEJ Rose, MC Rencurrel - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Vertical Structure of Tropospheric Water Vapor: Comparing Radiative and Ocean-Driven
Climate Changes in: Journal of Climate Volume 29 Issue 11 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to …

The effects of the spatial distribution of direct anthropogenic aerosols radiative forcing on atmospheric circulation

R Chemke, G Dagan - Journal of climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
The large uncertainty in estimating the global aerosol radiative forcing (ARF) is one of the
major challenges the climate community faces for climate projection. While the global-mean …

Quantifying uncertainty from aerosol and atmospheric parameters and their impact on climate sensitivity

CG Fletcher, B Kravitz, B Badawy - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Climate sensitivity in Earth system models (ESMs) is an emergent property that is affected by
structural (missing or inaccurate model physics) and parametric (variations in model …