Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

J Li, BE Carlson, YL Yung, D Lv, J Hansen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

Impact of COVID-19 on greenhouse gases emissions: A critical review

A Kumar, P Singh, P Raizada, CM Hussain - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The global outburst of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has posed severe challenges to human
health, environment, energy and economy all over the world. The stringent measures to …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

J Quaas, H Jia, C Smith, AL Albright… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic aerosols exert a cooling influence that offsets part of the greenhouse gas
warming. Due to their short tropospheric lifetime of only several days, the aerosol forcing …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing

MW Christensen, A Gettelman, J Cermak… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-
day radiative forcing due to human activities. The nonlinearity of cloud-state changes to …

The worldwide COVID-19 lockdown impacts on global secondary inorganic aerosols and radiative budget

T Sekiya, K Miyazaki, H Eskes, K Bowman, K Sudo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Global lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) led to air pollutant emission reductions. While the COVID-19 lockdown impacts on both …

Impact of COVID-19 induced lockdown on land surface temperature, aerosol, and urban heat in Europe and North America

BR Parida, S Bar, D Kaskaoutis, AC Pandey… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of SARS CoV-2 (COVID-19) has posed a serious threat to human beings,
society, and economic activities all over the world. Worldwide rigorous containment …

Ship** regulations lead to large reduction in cloud perturbations

D Watson-Parris, MW Christensen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Global ship** accounts for 13% of global emissions of SO2, which, once oxidized to
sulfate aerosol, acts to cool the planet both directly by scattering sunlight and indirectly by …

Has reducing ship emissions brought forward global warming?

A Gettelman, MW Christensen… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ships brighten low marine clouds from emissions of sulfur and aerosols, resulting in visible
“ship tracks”. In 2020, new ship** regulations mandated an∼ 80% reduction in the …

Forecasting of energy consumption by G20 countries using an adjacent accumulation grey model

I Raheem, NM Mubarak, RR Karri, T Manoj… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This paper studies an adjacent accumulation discrete grey model to improve the prediction
of the grey model and enhance the utilization of new data. The impact of COVID-19 on the …