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Title: Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

Journal Article · · Reviews of Geophysics (1985)
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  1. Univ. of Reading (United Kingdom)
  2. Universität Leipzig (Germany)
  3. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  4. Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany)
  5. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France)
  7. Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom)
  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France); Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
  9. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States)
  10. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
  11. CEMPS, University of Exeter Exeter UK; UK Met Office Hadley Centre Exeter UK
  12. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich Zurich Switzerland
  13. CEMPS, University of Exeter Exeter UK
  14. Department of MeteorologyStockholm University Stockholm Sweden
  15. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds Leeds UK
  16. Center for International Climate and Environmental Research‐‐Oslo (CICERO) Oslo Norway
  17. Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig Leipzig Germany
  18. Department of Global EcologyCarnegie Institution for Science Stanford CA USA; Now at Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Germany
  19. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg Germany
  20. Department of Applied EnergyGraduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University Nagoya Japan; Now at Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesHokkaido University Sapporo Japan
  21. Climate Modelling and Air Pollution Section, Research and Development DepartmentNorwegian Meteorological Institute Oslo Norway
  22. Brookhaven National Laboratory Environmental &, Climate Sciences Department Upton NY USA
  23. Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig Leipzig Germany; Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Université de Lille Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
  24. Department of GeosciencesUniversity of Oslo Norway
  25. Department of MeteorologyUniversity of Reading Reading UK; Now at Institute of PhysicsUniversity of Tartu Tartu Estonia
  26. NASA Langley Research Center Hampton VA United States

Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40 years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the imbalance in the Earth's radiation budget caused by anthropogenic aerosols, called aerosol radiative forcing, but uncertainties remain large. This work offers a new range of aerosol radiative forcing over the industrial era based on multiple, traceable and arguable lines of evidence, including modelling approaches, theoretical considerations, and observations. Improved understanding of aerosol absorption and the causes of trends in surface radiative fluxes constrain the forcing from aerosol-radiation interactions. A robust theoretical foundation and convincing evidence constrain the forcing caused by aerosol-driven increases in liquid cloud droplet number concentration. Yet, the influence of anthropogenic aerosols on cloud liquid water content and cloud fraction is less clear, and the influence on mixed-phase and ice clouds remains poorly constrained. Observed changes in surface temperature and radiative fluxes provide additional constraints. These multiple lines of evidence lead to a 68% confidence interval for the total aerosol effective radiative forcing of -1.60 to -0.65 Wm-2, or -2.0 to -0.4 Wm-2 with a 90% likelihood. Those intervals are of similar width to the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment but shifted towards more negative values. The uncertainty will narrow in the future by continuing to critically combine multiple lines of evidence, especially those addressing industrial-era changes in aerosol sources and aerosol effects on liquid cloud amount and on ice clouds.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); European Research Council (ERC); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1604840
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1570661; OSTI ID: 1604842
Report Number(s):
BNL-212193-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
Reviews of Geophysics (1985), Vol. 58, Issue 1; ISSN 8755-1209
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 340 works
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