b) there are many
natural aerosols in the atmosphere.
Not exact matches
Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended
in the
atmosphere, consisting of (
in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has
natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous
aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.
The PNNL study measured how,
in the
atmosphere, these
aerosols interact with and mix with other volatile or semi-volatile organic compounds, the carbon - centric chemicals that evaporate from both
natural and human - made sources.
Secondary organic
aerosols are formed through complex physical and chemical interactions between pre-existing
aerosols in the
atmosphere and trace organic gases emitted from both human - caused and
natural sources.
These analyses indicate that it is likely that greenhouse gases alone would have caused more than the observed warming over the last 50 years of the 20th century, with some warming offset by cooling from
natural and other anthropogenic factors, notably
aerosols, which have a very short residence time
in the
atmosphere relative to that of well - mixed greenhouse gases (Schwartz, 1993).
Constraining the influence of
natural variability to improve estimates of global
aerosol indirect effects
in a nudged version of the Community
Atmosphere Model 5.
On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor
in the
atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and
aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes
in a system where there are
natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.
The last report showed us that CLOUD had confirmed the basic cloud nucleation mechanism with cosmic rays if certain
natural aerosols are present, but stated that more work was needed to see how this would work
in our
atmosphere.
Causes, and they are multiple, appear to be: 1)
Natural variability of ocean to atmosphere sensible and latent heat flux 2) Modest increase in natural volcanic aerosols 3) Slight decrease in solar
Natural variability of ocean to
atmosphere sensible and latent heat flux 2) Modest increase
in natural volcanic aerosols 3) Slight decrease in solar
natural volcanic
aerosols 3) Slight decrease
in solar output
In times when the oceans are warming, there could be several factors that influence this, each with varying contributions based on natural and / or anthropogenic variability: 1) Greater solar output 2) Less aerosols in the atmosphere 3) Less cloudiness (especially of a certain type) 4) Increased greenhouse gas
In times when the oceans are warming, there could be several factors that influence this, each with varying contributions based on
natural and / or anthropogenic variability: 1) Greater solar output 2) Less
aerosols in the atmosphere 3) Less cloudiness (especially of a certain type) 4) Increased greenhouse gas
in the
atmosphere 3) Less cloudiness (especially of a certain type) 4) Increased greenhouse gases
Real Climate defines «
aerosols» as ``... solid or liquid particles suspended
in the
atmosphere, consisting of (
in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has
natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous
aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.»
The formation of cloud droplets and cloud ice crystals is associated with suspended
aerosols, which are produced by
natural processes as well as human activities and are ubiquitous
in Earth's
atmosphere.
Turner's work,
in particular, which often depicts brightly colored sunsets and emphasized
natural light, can be used to roughly estimate
aerosol optical depth — that is, the amount of particles like dust, volcanic ash, smoke and sea salts
in the
atmosphere — at the time the painting was made.
Aerosols have both natural and human sources, so if we just assume aerosol concentration variation in the atmosphere will continue as it has for the last 165 years, then future AGW can be projected with TCR (1 + beta) where beta is the historical fraction of CO2 radiative forcing caused by all other GHG and a
Aerosols have both
natural and human sources, so if we just assume
aerosol concentration variation
in the
atmosphere will continue as it has for the last 165 years, then future AGW can be projected with TCR (1 + beta) where beta is the historical fraction of CO2 radiative forcing caused by all other GHG and
aerosolsaerosols.
Natural Variability Doesn't Account for Observed Temperature Increase
In it's press release announcement, NASA points out that while there are other factors than greenhouse gases contributing to the amount of warming observed — changes in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188
In it's press release announcement, NASA points out that while there are other factors than greenhouse gases contributing to the amount of warming observed — changes
in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188
in the sun's irradiance, oscillations of sea surface temperatures
in the tropics, changes in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188
in the tropics, changes
in aerosol levels in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188
in aerosol levels
in the atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 188
in the
atmosphere — these factors are not sufficient to account for the temperature increases observed since 1880.
The new study, published
in Nature Geoscience, identified a negative feedback loop
in which higher temperatures lead to an increase
in concentrations of
natural aerosols that have a cooling effect on the
atmosphere.
The climate feedbacks involved with these changes, which are key
in understanding the climate system as a whole, include: + the importance of aerosol absorption on climate + the impact of aerosol deposition which affects biology and, hence, emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursors via organic nitrogen, organic phosphorus and iron fertilization + the importance of land use and land use changes on natural and anthropogenic aerosol sources + the SOA sources and impact on climate, with special attention on the impact human activities have on natural SOA formation In order to quantitatively answer such questions I perform simulations of the past, present and future atmospheres, and make comparisons with measurements and remote sensing data, all of which help understand, evaluate and improve the model's parameterizations and performance, and our understanding of the Earth syste
in understanding the climate system as a whole, include: + the importance of
aerosol absorption on climate + the impact of
aerosol deposition which affects biology and, hence, emissions of
aerosols and
aerosol precursors via organic nitrogen, organic phosphorus and iron fertilization + the importance of land use and land use changes on
natural and anthropogenic
aerosol sources + the SOA sources and impact on climate, with special attention on the impact human activities have on
natural SOA formation
In order to quantitatively answer such questions I perform simulations of the past, present and future atmospheres, and make comparisons with measurements and remote sensing data, all of which help understand, evaluate and improve the model's parameterizations and performance, and our understanding of the Earth syste
In order to quantitatively answer such questions I perform simulations of the past, present and future
atmospheres, and make comparisons with measurements and remote sensing data, all of which help understand, evaluate and improve the model's parameterizations and performance, and our understanding of the Earth system.
Topics that I work on or plan to work
in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in the future include studies of: + missing
aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic
aerosols and their importance on the remote marine
atmosphere, the
in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in - cloud and
aerosol water aqueous formation of organic
aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing
aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of
aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and
aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic
aerosols, the importance of
in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in - canopy processes on
natural terrestrial
aerosol and
aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of
aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions
in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in the
atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of
aerosols, which affect
aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing
aerosols +
aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the
aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on
aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics
In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the
aerosol representation
in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested
in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in understanding the importance of
natural and anthropogenic
aerosol changes
in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climat
in the
atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.