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Title: Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing

Journal Article · · Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online)
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  1. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
  3. Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT) (Germany). Inst. of Meteorology and Climate Research; Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Inst. of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  4. Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel). Inst. of Earth Sciences
  5. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
  6. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  7. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL)
  8. Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)
  9. Univ. Leipzig (Germany). Inst. for Meteorology
  10. Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom). National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences
  11. Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
  12. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  13. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  14. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  15. Met Office, Exeter (United Kingdom)
  16. Univ. of Miami, FL (United States); Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS)
  17. Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
  18. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Severe and High Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO); Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  19. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States)
  20. Goethe Univ., Frankfurt (Germany). Inst. for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
  21. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). National Centre for Earth Observation
  22. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  23. Leibniz Inst. for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig (Germany)
  24. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  25. Univ. of Tartu (Estonia). Inst. of Physics
  26. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  27. Plymouth Marine Lab., Prospect Place (United Kingdom)
  28. Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States). Joint Center for Earth Systems Technologies; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)

Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-day radiative forcing due to human activities. The nonlinearity of cloud-state changes to aerosol perturbations make it challenging to attribute causality in observed relationships of aerosol radiative forcing. Using correlations to infer causality can be challenging when meteorological variability also drives both aerosol and cloud changes independently. Natural and anthropogenic aerosol perturbations from well-defined sources provide “opportunistic experiments” (also known as natural experiments) to investigate ACI in cases where causality may be more confidently inferred. These perturbations cover a wide range of locations and spatiotemporal scales, including point sources such as volcanic eruptions or industrial sources, plumes from biomass burning or forest fires, and tracks from individual ships or shipping corridors. We review the different experimental conditions and conduct a synthesis of the available satellite datasets and field campaigns to place these opportunistic experiments on a common footing, facilitating new insights and a clearer understanding of key uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing. Cloud albedo perturbations are strongly sensitive to background meteorological conditions. Strong liquid water path increases due to aerosol perturbations are largely ruled out by averaging across experiments. Opportunistic experiments have significantly improved process-level understanding of ACI, but it remains unclear how reliably the relationships found can be scaled to the global level, thus demonstrating a need for deeper investigation in order to improve assessments of aerosol radiative forcing and climate change.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); European Research Council (ERC); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Estonian Research Council; National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Royal Society; German Research Foundation (DFG); Israeli Science Foundation
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1854910
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-163887
Journal Information:
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online), Journal Name: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 22; ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher:
Copernicus Publications, EGUCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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