Combining atmospheric and snow radiative transfer models to assess the solar radiative effects of black carbon in the Arctic

• Main Authors: Donth, Tobias, Jäkel, Evelyn, Ehrlich, André, Heinold, Bernd, Schacht, Jacob, Herber, Andreas, Zanatta, Marco, Wendisch, Manfred
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau : EGU 2020
• Subjects: black carbon; radiation budget; radiative forcing; radiative transfer; snowpack; solar radiation; Alaska; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; United States; 550; Jan Mayen; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/6895; https://doi.org/10.34657/5942

The magnitude of solar radiative effects (cooling or warming) of black carbon (BC) particles embedded in the Arctic atmosphere and surface snow layer was explored on the basis of case studies. For this purpose, combined atmospheric and snow radiative transfer simulations were performed for cloudless...