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 …

Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia

K Ding, X Huang, A Ding, M Wang, H Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low clouds play a key role in the Earth-atmosphere energy balance and influence
agricultural production and solar-power generation. Smoke aloft has been found to enhance …

[HTML][HTML] The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation interaction and forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign

JM Haywood, SJ Abel, PA Barrett… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The representations of clouds, aerosols, and cloud–aerosol–radiation impacts remain some
of the largest uncertainties in climate change, limiting our ability to accurately reconstruct …

Australian wildfires cause the largest stratospheric warming since Pinatubo and extends the lifetime of the Antarctic ozone hole

L Damany-Pearce, B Johnson, A Wells, M Osborne… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Global mean lower stratosphere temperatures rose abruptly in January 2020 reaching
values not experienced since the early 1990s. Anomalously high lower stratospheric …

Evaluation and intercomparison of wildfire smoke forecasts from multiple modeling systems for the 2019 Williams Flats fire

X Ye, P Arab, R Ahmadov, E James… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfire smoke is one of the most significant concerns of human and environmental health,
associated with its substantial impacts on air quality, weather, and climate. However …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially coordinated airborne data and complementary products for aerosol, gas, cloud, and meteorological studies: the NASA ACTIVATE dataset

A Sorooshian, MD Alexandrov, AD Bell… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The NASA Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic
Experiment (ACTIVATE) produced a unique dataset for research into aerosol–cloud …

Multifaceted aerosol effects on precipitation

P Stier, SC van den Heever, MW Christensen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aerosols have been proposed to influence precipitation rates and spatial patterns from
scales of individual clouds to the globe. However, large uncertainty remains regarding the …

Climate models generally underrepresent the warming by Central Africa biomass-burning aerosols over the Southeast Atlantic

M Mallet, P Nabat, B Johnson, M Michou… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The radiative budget, cloud properties, and precipitation over tropical Africa are influenced
by solar absorption by biomass-burning aerosols (BBA) from Central Africa. Recent field …

Direct and semi-direct radiative forcing of biomass-burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic (SEA) and its sensitivity to absorbing properties: a regional climate …

M Mallet, F Solmon, P Nabat, N Elguindi… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Simulations are performed for the period 2000–2015 by two different regional climate
models, ALADIN and RegCM, to quantify the direct and semi-direct radiative effects of …

Biomass burning aerosol as a modulator of the droplet number in the southeast Atlantic region

M Kacarab, KL Thornhill, A Dobracki… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The southeastern Atlantic (SEA) and its associated cloud deck, off the west coast of central
Africa, is an area where aerosol–cloud interactions can have a strong radiative impact …