Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection (meep-15)

Uncertainty in Estimation of Anthropogenic Aerosol Indirect Effect

Authors
X.J. Shi, X.F. Zhi
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X.J. Shi
Available Online March 2016.
DOI
10.2991/meep-15.2016.45How to use a DOI?
Keywords
aerosol indirect effect; uncertainty; climate change
Abstract

In this paper, uncertainties in estimating anthropogenic aerosol indirect effects on warm clouds are explored using the recently developed Grid point Atmospheric Model (GAMIL) with prescribed aerosol fields. The anthropogenic aerosol indirect effect is calculated by the change in shortwave cloud forcing from preindustrial times to present-day. Simulations show anthropogenic aerosol indirect effect is not sensitive to two different physically-based droplet nucleation parameterizations. However, anthropogenic aerosol indirect effect is quite sensitive to the assumption on the subgrid vertical velocities, which are used to drive physicallybased droplet nucleation parameterization. Furthermore, sensitivity simulations indicate that aerosol influence on convective clouds, which is not considered in GAMIL model, might be an important contributor to anthropogenic aerosol indirect effect.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection (meep-15)
Series
Advances in Physics Research
Publication Date
March 2016
ISBN
10.2991/meep-15.2016.45
ISSN
2352-541X
DOI
10.2991/meep-15.2016.45How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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