Climate Forcing by Aerosols--a Hazy Picture

Science, 2003

278 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/960014375145e3cf5518e4f148405cb8ce6f6705

Citations in the corpus

• Estimates of global multicomponent aerosol optical depth and direct radiative perturbation in the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique general circulation model (2005, unknown): “Estimating aerosol effects on the radiation budget to a better accuracy is an important step toward minimizing the uncertainties in assessment of global climate change and there is a need to do so from direct modeling studies [Anderson et al., 2003].”
• What caused Earths temperature variations during the last 800,000 years? Data-based evidences on radiative forcing and constraints on climate sensitivity (2009, unknown): “…introduced by mankind only in the last century (e.g. halocarbons), or we have such poor understanding of their impact on climate and lack information about their variability in the past (e.g. indirect effect of aerosols (Anderson et al., 2003; Lohmann and Feichter, 2005; Lohmann et al., 2007)).”
• How reliable are climate models? (2007, unknown): “Although these problems are most obvious in the case of individual model runs, they might also affect the interpretation of multimodel ensembles if the simulations collectively misrepresent some component of the forcing such as the impact of anthropogenic aerosols (e.g. Anderson et al., 2003).”
• Aerosol-cloud interaction inferred from MODIS satellite data and global aerosol models (2006, unknown): “It is important to understand and quantify the microphysical impact of both natural and anthropogenic aerosols on clouds, in order to understand and predict climate change (Anderson et al., 2003; Forest et al., 2002; Knutti et al., 2002).”
• Direct aerosol forcing: Calculation from observables and sensitivities to inputs (2006, unknown): “Extensive properties, which scale linearly with aerosol amount, include measurements of optical depth (extinction in the total column and its wavelength dependence, often characterized by the Ångström exponent); aerosol forcing is commonly characterized as a "forcing per optical depth."”
• Twentieth century climate model response and climate sensitivity (2007, unknown): “This large uncertainty in aerosol forcing has recently been noted [Anderson et al., 2003; Schwartz, 2004] as a significant challenge to the climate modeling community.”
• Increase of cloud droplet size with aerosol optical depth: An observation and modeling study (2008, unknown): “Even if the gap is closed by a new mechanism, one cannot disregard the results obtained from backward calculations [Anderson et al., 2003] unless past observations were proven erroneous or biased.”
• Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture (2008, unknown): “Smoke contains 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 e”
• Cancellation of Aerosol Indirect Effects in Marine Stratocumulus through Cloud Thinning (2007, unknown): “Forward models (physical climate prediction models) generally show a much stronger total anthropogenic aerosol signature than is implied by inverse calculations (Anderson et al. 2003).”
• Optical properties of soot–water drop agglomerates: An experimental study (2006, unknown): “[58] As mentioned earlier, the understanding of the role of soot in regulating cloud albedo (i.e., all-sky direct forcing, semi-direct forcing and indirect forcing combined) constitutes a fundamental challenge to the modern theory of climate [e.g., Ramanathan et al., 2001a; Anderson et al., 2003].”
• Global indirect aerosol effects: a review (2004, unknown): “They typically use ensembles of simulations with climate models of reduced complexity and estimate a smaller anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect within the range of 0 to − 2 W m 2 (Forest et al., 2002; Knutti et al., 2002; Anderson et al., 2003).”