Sensitivity of global-scale climate change attribution results to inclusion of fossil fuel black carbon aerosol

Details Sensitivity of global-scale climate change attribution results to inclusion of fossil fuel black carbon aerosol Sensitivity of global-scale climate change attribution results to inclusion of fossil fuel black carbon aerosol

Jul 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3214701j&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 14, CiteID L14701

Physics

Geophysics

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Mathematical Geophysics: Spatial Analysis (0500), Atmospheric Processes: Climate Change And Variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes: Global Climate Models (1626, 4928)

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It is likely that greenhouse gas emissions caused most of the global mean warming observed during the 20th century, and that sulphate aerosols counteracted this warming to some extent, by reflecting solar radiation to space and thereby cooling the planet. However, the importance of another aerosol, namely black carbon, could be underestimated. Here we include fossil fuel black carbon aerosol in a detection and attribution analysis with greenhouse gas and sulphate aerosols. We find that most of the warming of the 20th Century is attributable to changes in greenhouse gases offset by net aerosol cooling. However the pattern of temperature change due to black carbon is currently indistinguishable from the sulphate aerosol pattern of temperature change. The attribution of temperature change due to greenhouse gases is not sensitive to the inclusion of black carbon. We can be confident about the overall attribution of total aerosols, but less so about the contributions of black carbon emissions to 20th century climate change. This work presents no evidence that black carbon aerosol forcing outweighed the cooling due to sulphate aerosol.

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