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The hemispheric con...
The hemispheric contrast in cloud microphysical properties constrains aerosol forcing
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McCoy, Isabel L. (författare)
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McCoy, Daniel T. (författare)
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Wood, Robert (författare)
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Regayre, Leighton (författare)
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Watson-Parris, Duncan (författare)
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Grosvenor, Daniel P. (författare)
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Mulcahy, Ane P. (författare)
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Hu, Yongxiang (författare)
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- Bender, Frida A.-M. (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU)
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Field, Paul R. (författare)
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Carslaw, Kenneth S. (författare)
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Gordon, Hamish (författare)
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- 2020-07-27
- 2020
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 117:32, s. 18998-19006
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Abstract
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- The change in planetary albedo due to aerosol-cloud interactions during the industrial era is the leading source of uncertainty in inferring Earth's climate sensitivity to increased greenhouse gases from the historical record. The variable that controls aerosol-cloud interactions in warm clouds is droplet number concentration. Global climate models demonstrate that the present-day hemispheric contrast in cloud droplet number concentration between the pristine Southern Hemisphere and the polluted Northern Hemisphere oceans can be used as a proxy for anthropogenically driven change in cloud droplet number concentration. Remotely sensed estimates constrain this change in droplet number concentration to be between 8 cm(-3) and 24 cm(-3). By extension, the radiative forcing since 1850 from aerosol-cloud interactions is constrained to be -1.2 W.m(-2) to -0.6 W.m(-2). The robustness of this constraint depends upon the assumption that pristine Southern Ocean droplet number concentration is a suitable proxy for preindustrial concentrations. Droplet number concentrations calculated from satellite data over the Southern Ocean are high in austral summer. Near Antarctica, they reach values typical of Northern Hemisphere polluted outflows. These concentrations are found to agree with several in situ datasets. In contrast, climate models show systematic underpredictions of cloud droplet number concentration across the Southern Ocean. Near Antarctica, where precipitation sinks of aerosol are small, the underestimation by climate models is particularly large. This motivates the need for detailed process studies of aerosol production and aerosol-cloud interactions in pristine environments. The hemispheric difference in satellite estimated cloud droplet number concentration implies preindustrial aerosol concentrations were higher than estimated by most models.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
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- cloud droplet number concentration
- radiative forcing
- aerosol-cloud
- interactions
- Southern Ocean
- remote sensing
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Mulcahy, Ane P.
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