Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

By Johannes Quaas, Yi Ming, S. Menon, Toshihiko Takemura, Minghuai Wang, J. Penner, Andrew Gettelman, U. Lohmann, N. Bellouin, Olivier Boucher and 28 more. 2009

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Aerosol indirect effects continue to constitute one of the most important uncertainties for anthropogenic climate perturbations. Within the international AEROCOM initiative, the representation of aerosol-cloud-radiation inter- actions in ten different general circulation models (GCMs) is evaluated using three satellite datasets. The focus is on stratiform liquid water clouds since most GCMs do not in- clude ice nucleation effects, and none of the model explicitly parameterises aerosol effects on convective clouds. We com- pute statistical relationships between aerosol optical depth ( a) and various cloud and radiation quantities in a manner that is consistent between the models and the satellite data. It is found that the model-simulated influence of aerosols on

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Improved Aerosol Processes and Effective Radiative Forcing in HadGEM3 and UKESM1 (2018, unknown): “…is a lack of detailed understanding of the complex nature of aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions and the physical processes underpinning these interactions from both an observational and modeling perspective (Ghan et al., 2016; Lohmann & Feichter, 2005; Quaas et al., 2009; Seinfeld et al., 2016).”