Articles | Volume 19, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11159-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11159-2019
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04 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2019

The importance of the representation of air pollution emissions for the modeled distribution and radiative effects of black carbon in the Arctic

Jacob Schacht, Bernd Heinold, Johannes Quaas, John Backman, Ribu Cherian, Andre Ehrlich, Andreas Herber, Wan Ting Katty Huang, Yutaka Kondo, Andreas Massling, P. R. Sinha, Bernadett Weinzierl, Marco Zanatta, and Ina Tegen

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ECHAM-HAM simulations for evaluation and quantification of BC effects in the Arctic under different emission data sets J. Schacht, H. Bernd, and I. Tegen https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903547

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The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of Earth. Black carbon (BC) aerosol contributes to this Arctic amplification by direct and indirect aerosol radiative effects while distributed in air or deposited on snow and ice. The aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM is used to estimate direct aerosol radiative effect (DRE). Airborne and near-surface BC measurements are used to evaluate the model and give an uncertainty range for the burden and DRE of Arctic BC caused by different emission inventories.
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