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ProfessorApostolosVoulgarakis

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor in Global Climate and Environmental Change
 
 
 
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Huxley 709BHuxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Wells:2023:10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023,
author = {Wells, C and Kasoar, M and Bellouin, N and Voulgarakis, A},
doi = {10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
pages = {3575--3593},
title = {Local and remote climate impacts of future African aerosol emissions},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023},
volume = {23},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The potential future trend in African aerosol emissions is uncertain, with a large range found in future scenarios used to drive climate projections. The future climate impact of these emissions is therefore uncertain. Using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios, transient future experiments were performed with the UK Earth System Model (UKESM1) to investigate the effect of African emissions following the high emission SSP370 scenario as the rest of the world follows the more sustainable SSP119, relative to a global SSP119 control. This isolates the effect of Africa following a relatively more polluted future emissions pathway. Compared to SSP119, SSP370 projects higher non-biomass-burning (non-BB) aerosol emissions, but lower biomass burning emissions, over Africa. Increased shortwave (SW) absorption by black carbon aerosol leads to a global warming, but the reduction in the local incident surface radiation close to the emissions is larger, causing a local cooling effect. The local cooling persists even when including the higher African CO2 emissions under SSP370 than SSP119. The global warming is significantly higher by 0.07 K when including the non-BB aerosol increases and higher still (0.22 K) when including all aerosols and CO2. Precipitation also exhibits complex changes. Northward shifts in the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) occur under relatively warm Northern Hemisphere land, and local rainfall is enhanced due to mid-tropospheric instability from black carbon absorption. These results highlight the importance of future African aerosol emissions for regional and global climate and the spatial complexity of this climate influence.
AU  - Wells,C
AU  - Kasoar,M
AU  - Bellouin,N
AU  - Voulgarakis,A
DO  - 10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023
EP  - 3593
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 1680-7316
SP  - 3575
TI  - Local and remote climate impacts of future African aerosol emissions
T2  - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3575-2023
UR  - https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/3575/2023/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103492
VL  - 23
ER  -
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