Near - global
satellite aerosol data imply a negative radiative forcing due to stratospheric aerosol changes over this period of about — 0.1 W / m2, reducing the recent global warming that would otherwise have occurred.
Near - global satellite
aerosol data imply a negative radiative forcing due to stratospheric aerosol changes over this period of about — 0.1 watt per square meter, reducing the recent global warming that would otherwise have occurred.
Aerosol data from the North Slope of Alaska are provided through a collaborative effort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory.
In the new work, Surabi Menon of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and colleagues
used aerosol data collected from 46 ground stations in China to assess four different climate modeling scenarios.
The
Sato aerosol data does not provide this; there is less aerosol cooling post-1999 than in the period 1974 - 1999.
It is more plausible that the models are running hot, that
the aerosol data is botched, that the TOA data has issues etc etc because we are trying to estimate highly spatially variable values for all global quantities with very few measurements.
The added value of this scenario is the continuation of
the aerosol data record, with the ability to lunar - calibrate APS on the free flyer.