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Asian pollution climatically modulates mid-latitude cyclones following hierarchical modelling and observational analysis

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  • Yuan Wang

    (Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment, Texas A&M University
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

  • Renyi Zhang

    (Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment, Texas A&M University
    State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University)

  • R. Saravanan

    (Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment, Texas A&M University)

Abstract

Increasing levels of anthropogenic aerosols in Asia have raised considerable concern regarding its potential impact on the global atmosphere, but the magnitude of the associated climate forcing remains to be quantified. Here, using a novel hierarchical modelling approach and observational analysis, we demonstrate modulated mid-latitude cyclones by Asian pollution over the past three decades. Regional and seasonal simulations using a cloud-resolving model show that Asian pollution invigorates winter cyclones over the northwest Pacific, increasing precipitation by 7% and net cloud radiative forcing by 1.0 W m−2 at the top of the atmosphere and by 1.7 W m−2 at the Earth’s surface. A global climate model incorporating the diabatic heating anomalies from Asian pollution produces a 9% enhanced transient eddy meridional heat flux and reconciles a decadal variation of mid-latitude cyclones derived from the Reanalysis data. Our results unambiguously reveal a large impact of the Asian pollutant outflows on the global general circulation and climate.

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  • Yuan Wang & Renyi Zhang & R. Saravanan, 2014. "Asian pollution climatically modulates mid-latitude cyclones following hierarchical modelling and observational analysis," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-7, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4098
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4098
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