Evaluating Recent Updated Black Carbon Emissions and Revisiting the Direct Radiative Forcing in Arctic
Abstract
Abstract There is significant uncertainty in the global inventory of black carbon (BC). Several recent studies have reported BC emission updates, including the Fire Emission Inventory‐northern Eurasia, anthropogenic emission in Russia, and global natural gas flaring. Compared with the inventory used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, these updates are only 10% higher on a global scale but are 3 times greater than previous estimations in Arctic (60–90°N). We applied GEOS‐Chem to examine these emission updates and evaluate their impacts on direct forcing. We found that Fire Emission Inventory‐northern Eurasia may be substantially overestimated, Russia shows no prominent influence on simulation, and natural gas flaring noticeably improves simulation performance in the Arctic. Model estimated direct forcing of BC is increased by 30% on the global scale and is 2 times higher in the Arctic through application of these emission updates. This study reveals the urgent need to improve the reliability of emission inventories in the high latitudes, especially over Eurasia.
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[3];
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA, Climate Change Science Institute and Computational Sciences and Engineering Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge TN USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville TN USA, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Study, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering Fudan University Shanghai China
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- Geophysical Research Letters
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- Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Volume: 46 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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Dong, Xinyi, Zhu, Qingzhao, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Tan, Jiani, and Tipton, Matthew. Evaluating Recent Updated Black Carbon Emissions and Revisiting the Direct Radiative Forcing in Arctic. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1029/2018GL081242.
Dong, Xinyi, Zhu, Qingzhao, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Tan, Jiani, & Tipton, Matthew. Evaluating Recent Updated Black Carbon Emissions and Revisiting the Direct Radiative Forcing in Arctic. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081242
Dong, Xinyi, Zhu, Qingzhao, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Tan, Jiani, and Tipton, Matthew. Thu .
"Evaluating Recent Updated Black Carbon Emissions and Revisiting the Direct Radiative Forcing in Arctic". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081242.
@article{osti_1503914,
title = {Evaluating Recent Updated Black Carbon Emissions and Revisiting the Direct Radiative Forcing in Arctic},
author = {Dong, Xinyi and Zhu, Qingzhao and Fu, Joshua S. and Huang, Kan and Tan, Jiani and Tipton, Matthew},
abstractNote = {Abstract There is significant uncertainty in the global inventory of black carbon (BC). Several recent studies have reported BC emission updates, including the Fire Emission Inventory‐northern Eurasia, anthropogenic emission in Russia, and global natural gas flaring. Compared with the inventory used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, these updates are only 10% higher on a global scale but are 3 times greater than previous estimations in Arctic (60–90°N). We applied GEOS‐Chem to examine these emission updates and evaluate their impacts on direct forcing. We found that Fire Emission Inventory‐northern Eurasia may be substantially overestimated, Russia shows no prominent influence on simulation, and natural gas flaring noticeably improves simulation performance in the Arctic. Model estimated direct forcing of BC is increased by 30% on the global scale and is 2 times higher in the Arctic through application of these emission updates. This study reveals the urgent need to improve the reliability of emission inventories in the high latitudes, especially over Eurasia.},
doi = {10.1029/2018GL081242},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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