The competition between anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gas climate forcing is revealed by North Pacific water-mass changes

JR Shi, SE Wijffels, YO Kwon, LD Talley, ST Gille - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Modeled water-mass changes in the North Pacific thermocline, both in the subsurface and at
the surface, reveal the impact of the competition between anthropogenic aerosols (AAs) and …

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 …

Possible shift in controls of the tropical Pacific surface warming pattern

M Watanabe, SM Kang, M Collins, YT Hwang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the sea surface temperature (SST) pattern in the tropical Pacific
modulate radiative feedbacks to greenhouse gas forcing, the pace of global warming and …

Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

F Liu, X Li, Y Luo, W Cai, J Lu, XT Zheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observational evidence and climate model experiments suggest a slowdown of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) since the mid-1990s. Increased greenhouse …

Modelling human–natural systems interactions with implications for twenty-first-century warming

V Ramanathan, Y Xu, A Versaci - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
The redesign of energy and economic systems to stabilize climate change is hindered by the
lack of quantitative treatment of the role that human–natural systems interactions play in …

Interhemispheric contrasts of ocean heat content change reveals distinct fingerprints of anthropogenic climate forcings

JR Shi, SE Wijffels, YO Kwon… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During recent decades, both greenhouse gases (GHGs) and anthropogenic aerosols (AAs)
drove major changes in the Earth's energy imbalance. However, their respective fingerprints …

Two distinct modes of climate responses to the anthropogenic aerosol forcing changes

JR Shi, YO Kwon, SE Wijffels - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Unlike greenhouse gases (GHGs), anthropogenic aerosol (AA) concentrations have
increased and then decreased over the past century or so, with the timing of the peak …

The contribution of climate change to increasing extreme ocean warming around Japan

M Hayashi, H Shiogama, T Ogura - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is attributed to human activities that potentially cause record warm sea
surface temperatures (SSTs) worldwide. However, to what extent climate change has altered …

Anthropogenic aerosols have significantly weakened the regional summertime circulation in the Northern Hemisphere during the satellite era

JM Kang, TA Shaw, L Sun - Agu Advances, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reanalysis data show a significant weakening of summertime circulation in the Northern
Hemisphere (NH) midlatitudes in the satellite era with implications for surface weather …

Amplified Interhemispheric Rainfall Contrast in Boreal Summer Due To Reduction in Anthropogenic Emissions Under COVID‐MIP Green Economic‐Recovery …

X Yu, H Zhang, B Xie, PM Forster - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our study looks at the precipitation responses to two possible future emission‐mitigation
pathways, pushed by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic (COVID‐19) and achieving …