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| Titel |
Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers |
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W. J. Collins, M. M. Fry, H. Yu, J. S. Fuglestvedt, D. T. Shindell  , J. J. West |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1680-7316
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In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ; 13, no. 5 ; Nr. 13, no. 5 (2013-03-05), S.2471-2485 |
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250018467
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/acp-13-2471-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
We examine the climate effects of the emissions of near-term climate forcers
(NTCFs) from 4 continental regions (East Asia, Europe, North America and
South Asia) using results from the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of
Air Pollution Source-Receptor global chemical transport model simulations.
We address 3 aerosol species (sulphate, particulate organic matter and black
carbon) and 4 ozone precursors (methane, reactive nitrogen oxides
(NOx), volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide). We calculate
the global climate metrics: global warming potentials (GWPs) and global
temperature change potentials (GTPs). For the aerosols these metrics are
simply time-dependent scalings of the equilibrium radiative forcings. The
GTPs decrease more rapidly with time than the GWPs. The aerosol forcings and
hence climate metrics have only a modest dependence on emission region. The
metrics for ozone precursors include the effects on the methane lifetime.
The impacts via methane are particularly important for the 20 yr GTPs.
Emissions of NOx and VOCs from South Asia have GWPs and GTPs of higher
magnitude than from the other Northern Hemisphere regions.
The analysis is further extended by examining the temperature-change impacts
in 4 latitude bands, and calculating absolute regional temperature-change
potentials (ARTPs). The latitudinal pattern of the temperature response does
not directly follow the pattern of the diagnosed radiative forcing. We find
that temperatures in the Arctic latitudes appear to be particularly
sensitive to BC emissions from South Asia. The northern mid-latitude
temperature response to northern mid-latitude emissions is approximately
twice as large as the global average response for aerosol emission, and
about 20–30% larger than the global average for methane, VOC and CO
emissions. |
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