Joint Session 23 Aerosol–Climate Interactions from Regional to Global Scale. Part I

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
208 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Symposium on Aerosol - Cloud - Climate Interactions; and the 33rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
CoChair:
Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Atmospheric aerosols from natural or anthropogenic sources have profound impacts on

Earth's radiation budget, hydrological cycle, as well as regional and global climate. Currently, the radiative forcing of aerosols in the climate system remains highly uncertain, representing the largest uncertainty in climate predictions. For the direct effect, aerosols scatter and absorb solar radiation. Light scattering by aerosols changes the radiative fluxes at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA), at the surface, and within the atmospheric column, while aerosol absorption modifies the atmospheric temperature structure, decreases the solar radiation at the surface, and lowers surface sensible and latent fluxes, suppressing convection and reducing cloud fraction. Also, aerosols indirectly impact climate by altering cloud development, lifetime, albedo, and precipitation efficiency. On the other hand, climate variabilities also affect aerosol cycle and lifetime by altering aerosol removal processes. Current treatments of aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions remain crude in climate models. This session aims to review the state of current understanding on aerosol-climate interaction, so we invite any paper on the related subjects.

Papers:
1:45 PM
J23.2
Enhanced Land–Sea Warming Contrast Elevates Aerosol Pollution in a Warmer World (Invited Presentation)
Robert J. Allen, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and T. Hassan, C. Randles, and H. Su
2:15 PM
J23.4
Significant Impacts of African Wildfire Aerosols on Mid- and High-Latitude Climates in the Northern Hemisphere
Huiping Yan, Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and B. Wang, Z. Zhu, J. Luo, Y. Qian, and Y. Jiang
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