Impacts of aerosol dry deposition on black carbon spatial distributions and radiative effects in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

• Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
• Other Authors: Wu, Mingxuan (author), Liu, Xiaohong (author), Zhang, Leiming (author), Wu, Chenglai (author), Lu, Zheng (author), Ma, Po-Lun (author), Wang, Hailong (author), Tilmes, Simone (author), Mahowald, Natalie (author), Matsui, Hitoshi (author), Easter, Richard C. (author)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Aitken; Arctic; black carbon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001219

Dry deposition is an important process affecting the lifetime and spatial distributions of atmospheric aerosols. Black carbon (BC) plays an important role in the Earth's climate, but is subject to large bias in remote regions in model simulations. In this study, to improve the BC simulations, t...