The Effect of Aerosols on Long Wave Radiation and Global Warming Presented by Anna Ya-Chun Tai Y. Zhou and H. Savijärvi University of Helsinki, Finland.

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The Effect of Aerosols on Long Wave Radiation and Global Warming Presented by Anna Ya-Chun Tai Y. Zhou and H. Savijärvi University of Helsinki, Finland Atmospheric Research (2014)

Warm-Up  Aerosols: Liquid droplets or solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.  Long wave radiation: electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths > 4 um.  Light extinction coefficient, β ae : The fraction of light attenuated by aerosols.  Transmissivity (T) & Absorptivity (A) T= 1 - A

TOA I0I0 I  Transmissivity = I/I 0 = e (- β ae*dz)  Aerosol optical depth (AOD; τ )

Motivation  But how do aerosols affect terrestrial radiation?  IPCC AR5: limited knowledge of LW ERF_ari ( ).  This paper addresses the effects of aerosols on long wave thermal radiation.

Key long wave radiation properties  Down-welling LW Radiation (DLR) [Wm -2 ]  Outgoing LW Radiation (OLR) [Wm -2 ]  LW Heating rate (LH) [Kday -1 ] ( (-) most of time) TOA

LW Heating/Cooling Rate  Q = ρCpΔT | LH(z) = -dF/dz | Set -dF/dz = dQ/dt  It provides insights of the strength of these effects at each level.  Positive – the layer warms  Negative – the layer cools

Fundamental Equations  Light extinction coefficient by aerosols:  Assuming no scattering, then transmissivity of aerosol is:  Total transmissivity:

Paper Outline 1. Reference case (MLS) - Fixed 300ppm CO 2 - Liquid Water Path (LWP) - Doubling CO 2 - Aerosol in stratosphere 2. Extreme case - Constant β ae - Exponentially decreasing β ae → Fixed H (1km), varying V → Fixed V(20km), varying H

Paper Outline 1. Reference case (MLS) - Fixed 300ppm CO 2 - Liquid Water Path (LWP) - Doubling CO 2 - Aerosol in stratosphere 2. Extreme case - Constant β ae - Exponentially decreasing β ae → Fixed H (1km), varying V → Fixed V(20km), varying H

Model Setting  Narrow-Band Model (NBM) for LW Radiation  LW Radiation scheme by Savij ä rvi (2006)  Absorption approximation  Spectral fluxes at each narrow band (dk) were calculated with NBM for t gas.  67 bands in the LW range ( cm -1 )  Band model adoption for water vapour: Goody random band model CO 2 and O 3 : Malkmus model

Location Choice: Lan Zhou City, Gansu, China  36 °02’ N, 103°48E  At the basin  “Smog Trap”

Reference Case (cloud-free)  F net _sfc = 78 W/m 2  LH_sfc = -3.8 K/day  LH_ut = -2 K/day ? Great decrease near the surface ?

Effect of LWP on LW

Paper Outline 1. Reference case (MLS) - Fixed 300ppm CO 2 - Liquid Water Path (LWP) - Doubling CO 2 - Aerosol in stratosphere (14-24km) 2. Extreme case - Constant β ae - Exponentially decreasing β ae → Fixed H (1km), varying V → Fixed V(20km), varying H

Extreme case (const. β ae )

Extreme case (exp. decaying β ae )

Table 2 (LWP) and Table 4 (dust) inc 62.77dec 8.54 inc 62.21dec 10.31

Table 2 (LWP) and Table 5 (fine aerosol)

Conclusion (TAKE-HOME messages)  The effect of aerosol layer on LW quantities is similar to a thin low-level cloud.  The cooling rate of the layer results from increase of DLR and slight decrease of OLR.  Tropospheric aerosols can lead to an increasing LW cooling effect w/ higher concentration.  LW cooling effect is stronger near the surface. During heavy pollution events, a warming effect near the surface is likely to happen.

A Broader Picture of Energy Transfer and Aerosols… I0I0 I TOA DLR OLR

Comments on the paper  No specification of aerosol kinds. Only use β ae and τ in the NBM.  Not enough discussion about life assessment of aerosols and GHGs, but conclusion mentioned it.  ‘Global warming’ in the title; only a light touch on changing CO 2 concentration  More comprehensive research is needed.  Modification of the climate model

from Savijärvi (2006)  Avoid plagiarism!!

 Questions?