Surprising similarities in model and observational aerosol radiative forcing estimates

The radiative forcing from aerosols (particularly through their interaction with clouds) remains one of the most uncertain components of the human forcing of the climate. Observation-based studies have typically found a smaller aerosol effective radiative forcing than in model simulations and were given preferential weighting in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). With their own sources of uncertainty, it is not clear that observation-based estimates are more reliable. Understanding the source of the model and observational differences is thus vital to reduce uncertainty in the impact of aerosols on the climate.

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Author Gryspeerdt, E.
Mülmenstädt, J.
Gettelman, Andrew
Malavelle, F. F.
Morrison, Hugh
Neubauer, D.
Partridge, D. G.
Stier, P.
Takemura, T.
Wang, H.
Wang, M.
Zhang, K.
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Suggested Citation Gryspeerdt, E., Mülmenstädt, J., Gettelman, Andrew, Malavelle, F. F., Morrison, Hugh, Neubauer, D., Partridge, D. G., Stier, P., Takemura, T., Wang, H., Wang, M., Zhang, K.. (2020). Surprising similarities in model and observational aerosol radiative forcing estimates. UCAR/NCAR - Library. https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7c250nn. Accessed 18 August 2025.

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