Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds

Shi, Yang; Liu, Xiaohong

doi:10.1029/2019gl082504

Title: Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds

Journal Article · 07 June 2019 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl082504 · OSTI ID:1577549

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Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)

Mineral dust plays an important role in the primary formation of ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds by acting as ice nucleating particles (INPs). It can influence the cloud phase transition and radiative forcing of mixed-phase clouds, both of which are crucial to global energy budget and climate. In this study, we investigate the dust indirect effects on mixed-phase clouds through heterogeneous ice nucleation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Dust and INP concentrations simulated from two versions of E3SM with three ice nucleation parameterizations were evaluated against observations in the Northern Hemisphere. Constrained by these observations, E3SM shows that dust INPs induce a global mean net cloud radiative effect of 0.05 to 0.26 W/m² with the predominant warming appearing in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes. However, a cooling effect is found in the Arctic due to reduced longwave cloud forcing.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0014239; SC0016304; SC0018926; DE‐SC0014239; DE‐SC0018926; DE‐SC0016304

OSTI ID:: 1577549

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1526074

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 46, Issue 11; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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