Regional
aerosol models represent important aerosol properties and processes by integrating a suite of property and process models for a limited geographic area over a limited time span.
Not exact matches
According to Song, this finding highlights the need to improve how organic
aerosols are currently
represented in climate
models.
Because small - scale climate features, such as clouds and atmospheric
aerosol particles, have a large impact on global climate, it's important to improve the methods used to
represent those climate features in the
models.
Stage 2 uses these measurements to develop and evaluate
models that
represent these individual
aerosol and cloud processes and properties.
«Until recently,
aerosol processes were under -
represented in global climate
models because of disconnects between various research programs,» explained Ghan.
«Inorganic
aerosols, like sulfates, nitrates, and ammonium, are well -
represented in climate
models.
To find out if including the shielding of PAHs by viscous
aerosols would improve global atmosphere
models, the scientists used laboratory experiments to develop a new way of
representing PAHs in a global
model.
Differences in how a
model represents space and time scales, emission rates, meteorology, gas - phase chemistry, and other
aerosol processes all affect
model predictions.
He chose a figure which
represented model simulations of temperature responses only to greenhouse gas changes, which neglects for example the temperature response to the cooling effects of
aerosols.
The climate
models should use
aerosol offsets which
represent current best estimates, if they want people to take the AR5 declarations of
model accuracy seriously.
As far as re-calibrating a
model for various initial conditions or shoving more
aerosol forcing down its troat, it really comes down to which approach better
represents reality.
The verification comparison with ACCMIP doesn't really work because the
models included in that project
represent only a subset which are the most fully - featured for
aerosol modelling, and therefore generally produce the most negative
aerosol forcings.
Even worse, the
models inadequately include the diverse myraid effects of
aerosols and land use / land cover change on the climate system, so they are already hindered in their ability to accurately
represent the real world spectrum of human climate forcings.
Nonetheless our understanding of
aerosol - cloud interactions is incomplete, and what is well - understood, is incompletely
represented in large - scale
models.
Surely after decades of satellite measurements, countless field experiments, and numerous finescale
modeling studies that have repeatedly highlighted basic deficiencies in the ability of comprehensive climate
models to
represent processes contributing to atmospheric
aerosol forcing, it is time to give up on the fantasy that somehow their output can be accepted at face value.»
Current global climate
models suggest that the water vapor feedback to global warming due to carbon dioxide increases is weak but these
models do not fully resolve the tropopause or the cold point, nor do they completely
represent the QBO [Quasi Biennial Oscillation], deep convective transport and its linkages to SSTs, or the impact of
aerosol heating on water input to the stratosphere.
However, this is all somewhat academic because the fingerprint - based detection and attribution results in AR5 show that
models used by Shindell to estimate his enhanced response factor E poorly
represent the real world response to
aerosol, ozone and land use forcings.
-- Atmospheric
models have improved and many now
represent all
aerosol components of significance.
The data generated in this laboratory is used to reduce the uncertainty associated with
representing the organic
aerosol lifecycle in climate
models.
BAECC was designed to obtain important details on processes related to
aerosol, cloud, and snow formation that are not currently well understood or well
represented in earth system
models.