Climate Impacts from a Removal of Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions

Samset, B H ; Sand, M ; Smith, C J ; Bauer, S E ; Forster, P M ; Fuglestvedt, J S ; Osprey, S ; Schleussner, C F

关键词: CLIMATE CHANGE;    AEROSOLS;    AIR POLLUTION;    REDUCTION;    DATA SIMULATION;    CLIMATE MODELS;    GLOBAL WARMING;    GREENHOUSE GASES;    RADIATIVE FORCING;   

RP-ID  :  GSFC-E-DAA-TN51737

学科分类：大气科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

Limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2.0 deg C requires strong mitigation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Concurrently, emissions of anthropogenic aerosols will decline, due to co-emission with GHG, and measures to improve air quality. However, the combined climate effect of GHG and aerosol emissions over the industrial era is poorly constrained. Here we show the climate impacts from removing present day anthropogenic aerosol emissions, and compare them to the impacts from moderate GHG dominated global warming. Removing aerosols induces a global mean surface heating of 0.5-1.1 deg C, and precipitation increase of 2.0-4.6 %. Extreme weather indices also increase. We find a higher sensitivity of extreme events to aerosol reductions, per degree of surface warming, in particular over the major aerosol emission regions. Under near term warming, we find that regional climate change will depend strongly on the balance between aerosol and GHG forcing.