A PDRMIP multi-model study on the impacts of regional aerosol forcings on global and regional precipitation.

ABSTRACT: Atmospheric aerosols such as sulfate and black carbon (BC) generate inhomogeneous radiative forcing and can affect precipitation in distinct ways compared to greenhouse gases (GHGs). Their regional effects on the atmospheric energy budget and circulation can be important for understanding and predicting global and regional precipitation changes, which act on top of the background GHG-induced hydrological changes. Under the framework of the Precipitation Driver Response Model Inter-comparison Project (PDRMIP), multiple models were used for the first time to simulate the influence of regional (Asian and European) sulfate and BC forcing on global and regional precipitation. The results show that, as in the case of global aerosol forcing, the global fast precipitation response to regional aero

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376680 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature