Comparison of particle number size distribution trends in ground measurements and climate models

• Main Authors: Leinonen, V, Kokkola, H, Yli-Juuti, T, Mielonen, T, Kühn, T, Nieminen, T, Heikkinen, S, Miinalainen, T, Bergman, T, Carslaw, K, Decesari, S, Fiebig, M, Hussein, T, Kivekäs, N, Krejci, R, Kulmala, M, Leskinen, A, Massling, A, Mihalopoulos, N, Mulcahy, JP, Noe, SM, van Noije, T, O'Connor, FM, O'Dowd, C, Olivie, D, Pernov, JB, Petäjä, T, Seland, O, Schulz, M, Scott, CE, Skov, H, Swietlicki, E, Tuch, T, Wiedensohler, A, Virtanen, A, Mikkonen, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Aitken
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/191780/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/191780/1/acp-22-12873-2022.pdf

Despite a large number of studies, out of all drivers of radiative forcing, the effect of aerosols has the largest uncertainty in global climate model radiative forcing estimates. There have been studies of aerosol optical properties in climate models, but the effects of particle number size distrib...