Nature Communications (Jan 2021)
Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing
- Hunter Brown,
- Xiaohong Liu,
- Rudra Pokhrel,
- Shane Murphy,
- Zheng Lu,
- Rawad Saleh,
- Tero Mielonen,
- Harri Kokkola,
- Tommi Bergman,
- Gunnar Myhre,
- Ragnhild B. Skeie,
- Duncan Watson-Paris,
- Philip Stier,
- Ben Johnson,
- Nicolas Bellouin,
- Michael Schulz,
- Ville Vakkari,
- Johan Paul Beukes,
- Pieter Gideon van Zyl,
- Shang Liu,
- Duli Chand
Affiliations
- Hunter Brown
- Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
- Xiaohong Liu
- Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
- Rudra Pokhrel
- Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
- Shane Murphy
- Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
- Zheng Lu
- Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
- Rawad Saleh
- Air Quality and Climate Research Laboratory, University of Georgia
- Tero Mielonen
- Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Harri Kokkola
- Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Tommi Bergman
- Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Gunnar Myhre
- Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO)
- Ragnhild B. Skeie
- Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO)
- Duncan Watson-Paris
- Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- Philip Stier
- Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- Ben Johnson
- Met Office
- Nicolas Bellouin
- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
- Michael Schulz
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- Ville Vakkari
- Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Johan Paul Beukes
- Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group, Chemical Resource Beneficiation, North-West University
- Pieter Gideon van Zyl
- Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group, Chemical Resource Beneficiation, North-West University
- Shang Liu
- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
- Duli Chand
- Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20482-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 15
Abstract
Wildfires produce aerosols known to impact the climate, but the wider-reaching effects of this biomass burning are poorly constrained in models. Here the authors use a suite of observations from 12 campaigns around the globe to determine that the values used by most climate models overestimate the contribution of biomass burning aerosols.
