Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption
Radiative forcing by aerosols and tropospheric ozone could play a significant role in recent Arctic warming. These species are in general poorly accounted for in climate models. We use the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model to construct a 3-D representation of Arctic aerosols and ozone that i...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:smhpapers-2646 2023-05-15T14:36:56+02:00 Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption Breider, Thomas J Mickley, Loretta J Jacob, Daniel Wang, Qiaoqiao Fisher, Jenny A Chang, Rachel Y.-W Alexander, Becky 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/1628 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2646&context=smhpapers unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/1628 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2646&context=smhpapers Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A GeoQuest Medicine and Health Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences article 2014 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T10:56:02Z Radiative forcing by aerosols and tropospheric ozone could play a significant role in recent Arctic warming. These species are in general poorly accounted for in climate models. We use the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model to construct a 3-D representation of Arctic aerosols and ozone that is consistent with observations and can be used in climate simulations. We focus on 2008, when extensive observations were made from different platforms as part of the International Polar Year. Comparison to aircraft, surface, and ship cruise observations suggests that GEOS-Chem provides in general a successful year-round simulation of Arctic black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), sulfate, and dust aerosol. BC has major fuel combustion and boreal fire sources, OC is mainly from fires, sulfate has a mix of anthropogenic and natural sources, and dust is mostly from the Sahara. The model is successful in simulating aerosol optical depth (AOD) observations from Aerosol Robotics Network stations in the Arctic; the sharp drop from spring to summer appears driven in part by the smaller size of sulfate aerosol in summer. The anthropogenic contribution to Arctic AOD is a factor of 4 larger in spring than in summer and is mainly sulfate. Simulation of absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) indicates that non-BC aerosol (OC and dust) contributed 24% of Arctic AAOD at 550 nm and 37% of absorbing mass deposited to the snow pack in 2008. Open fires contributed half of AAOD at 550 nm and half of deposition to the snowpack. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic black carbon International Polar Year University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Arctic |
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Radiative forcing by aerosols and tropospheric ozone could play a significant role in recent Arctic warming. These species are in general poorly accounted for in climate models. We use the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model to construct a 3-D representation of Arctic aerosols and ozone that is consistent with observations and can be used in climate simulations. We focus on 2008, when extensive observations were made from different platforms as part of the International Polar Year. Comparison to aircraft, surface, and ship cruise observations suggests that GEOS-Chem provides in general a successful year-round simulation of Arctic black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), sulfate, and dust aerosol. BC has major fuel combustion and boreal fire sources, OC is mainly from fires, sulfate has a mix of anthropogenic and natural sources, and dust is mostly from the Sahara. The model is successful in simulating aerosol optical depth (AOD) observations from Aerosol Robotics Network stations in the Arctic; the sharp drop from spring to summer appears driven in part by the smaller size of sulfate aerosol in summer. The anthropogenic contribution to Arctic AOD is a factor of 4 larger in spring than in summer and is mainly sulfate. Simulation of absorbing aerosol optical depth (AAOD) indicates that non-BC aerosol (OC and dust) contributed 24% of Arctic AAOD at 550 nm and 37% of absorbing mass deposited to the snow pack in 2008. Open fires contributed half of AAOD at 550 nm and half of deposition to the snowpack. |
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Breider, Thomas J Mickley, Loretta J Jacob, Daniel Wang, Qiaoqiao Fisher, Jenny A Chang, Rachel Y.-W Alexander, Becky |
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Breider, Thomas J Mickley, Loretta J Jacob, Daniel Wang, Qiaoqiao Fisher, Jenny A Chang, Rachel Y.-W Alexander, Becky |
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Breider, Thomas J |
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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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annual distributions and sources of arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption |
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Arctic black carbon International Polar Year |
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Arctic black carbon International Polar Year |
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