Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds
Abstract
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 Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1577549
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1526074
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; SC0014239; SC0016304; SC0018926; DE‐SC0014239; DE‐SC0018926; DE‐SC0016304
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 46; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Geology; dust indirect effects; ice nucleation; mixed‐phase clouds
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Shi, Yang, and Liu, Xiaohong. Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1029/2019gl082504.
Shi, Yang, & Liu, Xiaohong. Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl082504
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"Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl082504. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1577549.
@article{osti_1577549,
title = {Dust Radiative Effects on Climate by Glaciating Mixed-Phase Clouds},
author = {Shi, Yang and Liu, Xiaohong},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1029/2019gl082504},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {6}
}
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