Climate Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols in China and India

By S. Menon, J. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, Yunfeng Luo. Science, 2002

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Observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation since 1979 (2007, background): “Results of GCM simulations suggest that the increase in black-carbon concentration in southern China might cause changes in the local meridional circulations, with enhanced rising motions in the south and subsidence in the north of China (Menon et al., 2002).”
Tracing Primary PM2.5 emissions via Chinese supply chains (2015, background): “5) affects visibility (Menon et al 2002, Huang et al 2006), the climate (Huang et al 2007, Bond et al 2013) and human health (Delfino et al 2005, Timonen et al 2005), creating the need to better understand the sources of PM2.”
Global indirect aerosol effects: a review (2004, neutral): “The results from Menon et al. (2002a) and Ghan et al. (2001) are taken to be the averages of the simulations for only the Twomey effect and for both effects. dinov and Kogan, 2000; Liu et al., 2004).”
Asian summer monsoon anomalies induced by aerosol direct forcing: the role of the Tibetan Plateau (2006, background): “Numerical experiments from a general circulation model (GCM) have suggested that atmospheric circulation anomalies induced by black carbon from coal burning may be a cause of long-term drought over northern China, and excessive rainfall over southern China and India ( Menon et al. 2002 ).”
Simulating the evolution of soot mixing state with a particle-resolved aerosol model (2008, background): “Because of its ability to absorb light [Horvath and Trier , 1993], soot is also recognized as an important player in the aerosol radiative forcing of climate at global, regional, and local scales [Menon et al., 2002; Chung and Seinfeld , 2005; Roeckner et al., 2006].”
Fractal parameters of individual soot particles determined using electron tomography: Implications for optical properties (2007, background): “Jacobson [2001] showed that soot particles may be the second most important component of global warming after CO2 in terms of direct radiative forcing; other studies suggest that they may cause even larger climate perturbations on a regional scale [ Menon et al., 2002; Roberts and Jones, 2004; Wang”
Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture (2008, background): “…a range of aerosols which can have either warming or cooling effects on the atmosphere, though the net effect is thought to be positive radiant forcing (Andreae 2001; Andreae & Merlet 2001; Menon et al. 2002; Anderson et al. 2003; Jones et al. 2003; Andreae et al. 2005; Venkataraman et al. 2005).”
Instrument calibration and aerosol optical depth validation of the China Aerosol Remote Sensing Network (2009, background): “It has been speculated that aerosol particles could contribute to global and regional dimming [Stanhill and Cohen, 2001; Che et al., 2005] and change of regional precipitation [ Menon et al., 2002 ].”
Efficacy of climate forcings (2005, methodology): “Such modeling is being pursued at GISS [Menon et al., 2002a; Menon and Del Genio, 2005] and other laboratories.”
Fire in the Earth System (2009, background): “6); this in turn can alter regional atmospheric stability and vertical motions, and thus influence largescale circulation and the hydrologic cycle (Menon et al., 2002).”
Sensitivity of the first indirect aerosol effect to an increase of cloud droplet spectral dispersion with droplet number concentration (2003, background): “Attempts to calculate these effects in global climate models (GCMs) have given a wide range of uncertainty, with recent estimates lying between -1.0 and -4.4 W m -2 for the combined first and second indirect effects in the global mean (Rotstayn 1999; Ghan et al. 200 I; Jones et al. 200 I; Lohmann an”
The origin of the savanna biome (2006, background): “Black aerosols absorb solar radiation, heating the troposphere and reducing the net flux of energy to the Earth’s surface (Menon et al., 2002).”