Radiative effects of black carbon aerosols on Indian monsoon: a study using WRF-Chem model

Soni, Pramod; Tripathi, Sachchida Nand; Srivastava, Rajesh

doi:10.1007/s00704-017-2057-1

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“…Existing modeling studies concerning black carbon have detailed its impact on the South Asian summer monsoon 19 . 41 , 42 , but the conclusions have been inconsistent. For example, Meehl et al 41 suggested that black carbon aerosols reduced monsoon precipitation over India during the period 1988–1999, while Soni et al 42 indicated that black carbon resulted in increased precipitation over northern India but decreased precipitation over southern India.…”

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South Asian black carbon is threatening the water sustainability of the Asian Water Tower

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Long-range transport of black carbon from South Asia to the Tibetan plateau and its deposition on glaciers directly enhances glacier melt. Here we find South Asian black carbon also has an indirect effect on the plateau’s glaciers shrinkage by acting to reduce the water supply over the southern Tibetan plateau. Black carbon enhances vertical convection and cloud condensation, which results in water vapor depletion over the Indian subcontinent that is the main moisture flux source for the southern Tibetan plateau. Increasing concentrations of black carbon causes a decrease in summer precipitation over the southern Tibetan plateau, resulting in 11.0% glacier deficit mass balance on average from 2007 to 2016; this loss rises to 22.1% in the Himalayas. The direct (accelerated melt) and indirect (mass supply decrease) effects of black carbon are driving the glacial mass decline of the so-called “Asian Water Tower”.

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“…J. also pointed out that BC in the ATM modified the vertical profiles of heating rate and equivalent potential temperature in Nanjing, China. In India, the ARI effects of BC enhanced convective activities, meridional flows, and rainfall in northeastern India during the pre-monsoon season but could either enhance or suppress precipitation during the monsoon season in different parts of the Indian subcontinent (Soni et al, 2018). Moreover, the ARI effects of BC on surface meteorological vari-ables were larger than its ACI effects in EC (Archer-Nicholls et al, 2019;Ding et al, 2019).…”

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Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality

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Xiu²,

Zhang³

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Atmos. Chem. Phys.

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Abstract. Atmospheric aerosols can exert an influence on meteorology and air quality through aerosol–radiation interaction (ARI) and aerosol–cloud interaction (ACI), and this two-way feedback has been studied by applying two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models. As one of the regions with the highest aerosol loading in the world, Asia has attracted many researchers to investigate the aerosol effects with several two-way coupled models (WRF-Chem, WRF-CMAQ, GRAPES-CUACE, WRF-NAQPMS, and GATOR-GCMOM) over the last decade. This paper attempts to offer a bibliographic analysis regarding the current status of applications of two-way coupled models in Asia, related research focuses, model performances, and the effects of ARI and/or ACI on meteorology and air quality. There were a total of 160 peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2019 in Asia meeting the inclusion criteria, with more than 79 % of papers involving the WRF-Chem model. The number of relevant publications has an upward trend annually, and East Asia, India, and China, as well as the North China Plain are the most studied areas. The effects of ARI and both ARI and ACI induced by natural aerosols (particularly mineral dust) and anthropogenic aerosols (bulk aerosols, different chemical compositions, and aerosols from different sources) are widely investigated in Asia. Through the meta-analysis of surface meteorological and air quality variables simulated by two-way coupled models, the model performance affected by aerosol feedbacks depends on different variables, simulation time lengths, selection of two-way coupled models, and study areas. Future research perspectives with respect to the development, improvement, application, and evaluation of two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models are proposed.

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“…Gao J. et al (2018) also pointed out BC in the ATM modified the vertical profiles of heating rate and equivalent potential temperature in Nanjing, China. In India, the ARI effects of BC enhanced convective activities, meridional flows, and rainfall in North-East India during the pre-monsoon season but could either enhance or suppress precipitation during the monsoon season in different parts of the India subcontinent (Soni et al, 2018). Moreover, the ARI effects of BC on surface meteorological variables were larger than its ACI effects in EC (Archer-Nicholls et al, 2019;Ding et al, 2019).…”

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Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality

Gao

Xiu

Zhang

et al. 2021

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Abstract. Atmospheric aerosols can exert influence on meteorology and air quality through aerosol-radiation interactions (ARI) and aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) and this two-way feedback has been studied by applying two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models. As one of regions with high aerosol loading in the world, Asia has attracted many researchers to investigate the aerosol effects with several two-way coupled models (WRF-Chem, WRF-CMAQ, GRAPES-CUACE and WRF-NAQPMS) over the last decade. This paper attempts to offer bibliographic analysis regarding the current status of applications of two-way coupled models in Asia, related research focuses, model performances and the effects of ARI or/and ACI on meteorology and air quality. There are total 157 peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2019 in Asia meeting the inclusion criteria, with more than 81 % of papers involving the WRF-Chem model. The number of relevant publications has an upward trend annually and East Asia, India, China, as well as the North China Plain are the most studied areas. The effects of ARI and both ARI and ACI induced by natural aerosols (particularly mineral dust) and anthropogenic aerosols (bulk aerosols, different chemical compositions and aerosols from different sources) are widely investigated in Asia. Through the meta-analysis of surface meteorological and air quality variables simulated by two-way coupled models, the model performance affected by aerosol feedbacks depends on different variables, simulation time lengths, selection of two-way coupled models, and study areas. Future research perspectives with respect to the development, improvement, application, and evaluation of two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models are proposed.

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Radiative effects of black carbon aerosols on Indian monsoon: a study using WRF-Chem model

Cited by 17 publications

References 60 publications

South Asian black carbon is threatening the water sustainability of the Asian Water Tower

South Asian black carbon is threatening the water sustainability of the Asian Water Tower

Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality

Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality

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