Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Divergent global-scale temperature effects from identical aerosols emitted in different regions

  • Geeta G. Persad,
  • Ken Caldeira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05838-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The climate effects of anthropogenic aerosols depend on their spatial distribution, but emission location is often ignored in evaluating their climate impact. Here the authors show drastic divergence in the simulated global temperature response to identical aerosols emitted from eight key geopolitical regions.