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Effects of aerosol in simulations of realistic shallow cumulus cloud fields in a large domain

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 19:21 (2019) 13507-13517

Authors:

George Spill, Philip Stier, Paul R Field, Guy Dagan

Energy budget-based backscatter in a shallow water model of a double gyre basin

OCEAN MODELLING 132 (2018) 1-11

Authors:

Milan Kloewer, Malte F Jansen, Martin Claus, Richard J Greatbatch, Soeren Thomsen

Understanding Rapid Adjustments to Diverse Forcing Agents

Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (2018)

Authors:

C Smith, R Kramer, G Myhre, P Forster, T Andrews, O Boucher, D Fläschner, Ø Hodnebrog, M Kasoar, V Kharin, A Kirkevag, J-F Lamarque, J Mülmenstädt, D Olivié, T Richardson, B Samset, D Shindell, P STIER, T Takemura, A Voulgarakis, D WATSON-PARRIS

Quantifying the importance of rapid adjustments for global precipitation changes

Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union 45:20 (2018) 11,399-11,405

Authors:

G Myhre, RJ Kramer, CJ Smith, O Hodnebrog, P Forster, B Soden, BH Samset, CW Stjern, T Andrews, O Boucher, G Faluvegi, D Fläschner, M Kasoar, A Kirkevåg, J-F Lamarque, D Olivié, T Richardson, D Shindell, Philip Stier, T Takemura, A Voulgarakis, Duncan Watson-Parris

Abstract:

Different climate drivers influence precipitation in different ways. Here we use radiative kernels to understand the influence of rapid adjustment processes on precipitation in climate models. Rapid adjustments are generally triggered by the initial heating or cooling of the atmosphere from an external climate driver. For precipitation changes, rapid adjustments due to changes in temperature, water vapor and clouds are most important. In this study we have investigated five climate drivers (CO2, CH4, solar irradiance, black carbon (BC), and sulfate aerosols) The fast precipitation response to a doubling of CO2 and a tenfold increase in BC is found to be similar, despite very different instantaneous changes in the radiative cooling, individual rapid adjustments and sensible heating. The model diversity in rapid adjustments is smaller for the experiment involving an increase in the solar irradiance compared to the other climate driver perturbations, and this is also seen in the precipitation changes.

The global aerosol-climate model ECHAM6.3-HAM2.3 – Part 1: Aerosol evaluation

Geoscientific Model Development Copernicus Publications (2018)

Authors:

I Tegen, D Neubauer, S Ferrachat, C Siegenthaler-Le Drian, I Bey, N Schutgens, P STIER, D WATSON-PARRIS, T Stanelle, H Schmidt, S Rast, H Kokkola, M Schultz, S Schroeder, N Daskalakis, S Barthel, B Heinold, U Lohmann