Air pollution slows down surface warming over the Tibetan Plateau

Jia, Aolin; Liang, Shunlin; Wang, Dongdong; Jiang, Bo; Zhang, Xiaotong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-881-2020

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Study of ozone, aerosols and radiation over the Tibetan Plateau...

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23 Jan 2020

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| 23 Jan 2020

Air pollution slows down surface warming over the Tibetan Plateau

Aolin Jia, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang, Bo Jiang, and Xiaotong Zhang

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RC1: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'open discussion response to referee#1', Aolin Jia, 23 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'open discussion response to referee#2', Aolin Jia, 23 Oct 2019
SC1: 'Review comments', Roosmarijn Knol, 04 Nov 2019
- AC3: 'open discussion response to reader#1', Aolin Jia, 11 Nov 2019
SC2: 'Review comments', Roosmarijn Knol, 04 Nov 2019
- AC4: 'open discussion response to referee#1', Aolin Jia, 11 Nov 2019

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Nov 2019) by Hailong Wang

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Dec 2019)

ED: Publish as is (27 Dec 2019) by Hailong Wang

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The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a vital role in regional and global climate change due to its location and orography. After generating a long-term surface radiation (SR) dataset, we characterized the SR spatiotemporal variation along with temperature. Evidence from multiple data sources indicated that the TP dimming was primarily driven by increased aerosols from human activities, and the cooling effect of aerosol loading offsets TP surface warming, revealing the human impact on regional warming.