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The impact of secondary inorganic aerosol emissions change on surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere

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Using the Community Earth System Model (CESM) version 1.2, this study investigates the changes in secondary inorganic aerosols (SIOAs) over the Northern Hemisphere from 1850 to 2007, regional contributions, and consequences on surface air temperature. Results show that SIOAs changes can be divided into two stages. At the first stage (1850–1980), European and North American SIOAs concentrations increase, with a cooling effect especially over Europe and Eastern Siberia. At the second stage (1980–2007), SIOAs concentrations over Europe and North America are reduced with a warming effect in the mid-high latitudes, whereas SIOAs increase over East Asia and South Asia leading to a cooling effect there. The temperature changes over the emission source regions are mainly driven by radiative forcing. Horizontal transfer of heat leads to a temperature response in the Siberian region.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41831175, 91937302 and 41721004). Key Deployment Project of Centre for Ocean Mega-Research of Science, Chinese academy of science(COMS2019QXX).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Chunjiang Zhou, Gang Huang, Kaiming Hu, Sixuan Li & Su Wang

  2. Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China

    Gang Huang

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Chunjiang Zhou, Gang Huang, Sixuan Li & Su Wang

  4. Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Peng Liu, Jintai Lin, Lulu Chen, Jingxu Wang & Ruijing Ni

  5. Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Kaiming Hu

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Zhou, C., Liu, P., Huang, G. et al. The impact of secondary inorganic aerosol emissions change on surface air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere. Theor Appl Climatol 141, 857–868 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03249-6

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