Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)

Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming

  • Knut von Salzen,
  • Cynthia H. Whaley,
  • Susan C. Anenberg,
  • Rita Van Dingenen,
  • Zbigniew Klimont,
  • Mark G. Flanner,
  • Rashed Mahmood,
  • Stephen R. Arnold,
  • Stephen Beagley,
  • Rong-You Chien,
  • Jesper H. Christensen,
  • Sabine Eckhardt,
  • Annica M. L. Ekman,
  • Nikolaos Evangeliou,
  • Greg Faluvegi,
  • Joshua S. Fu,
  • Michael Gauss,
  • Wanmin Gong,
  • Jens L. Hjorth,
  • Ulas Im,
  • Srinath Krishnan,
  • Kaarle Kupiainen,
  • Thomas Kühn,
  • Joakim Langner,
  • Kathy S. Law,
  • Louis Marelle,
  • Dirk Olivié,
  • Tatsuo Onishi,
  • Naga Oshima,
  • Ville-Veikko Paunu,
  • Yiran Peng,
  • David Plummer,
  • Luca Pozzoli,
  • Shilpa Rao,
  • Jean-Christophe Raut,
  • Maria Sand,
  • Julia Schmale,
  • Michael Sigmond,
  • Manu A. Thomas,
  • Kostas Tsigaridis,
  • Svetlana Tsyro,
  • Steven T. Turnock,
  • Minqi Wang,
  • Barbara Winter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00555-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Reduction in key air pollutants, especially particulate carbon, can help mitigate Arctic warming with associated benefits for global climate and human health, according to Earth system model simulations under future emissions scenarios.