Research project
Aerosols and Regional Climate
- Start date: 1 July 2018
- End date: 31 March 2020
- Value: £481243.58
- Partners and collaborators: University of Reading; UK Met Office
- External primary investigator: Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading)
- Co-investigators: Dr Leighton Regayre (10%) , Prof Ken Carslaw (1%), Dr Jill Johnson (Postdoc – 100%)
- External co-investigators: Dr Ellie Highwood (Reading; 5%), Dr Massimo Bollasina (Edinburgh; 5%); (Dr Thomson (Exeter; 20%)
We quantified and reduced the uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing over China. Regional and seasonal discrepancies were identified and dynamical responses to aerosol forcing were quantified.
Impact
Our results have implications for air quality planning in Asia during Winter months and for the development and impact of the East Asian Monsoon, in terms of increased model skill at simulating drought and flooding events. We identified model biases that can be used to further improve climate models.
Strong collaboration established between our team and Chinese climate scientists (at IAP).
Publications and outputs
Regayre et al. 2020: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10063-2020
Peace et al. 2020: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba20c (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba20c)
Johnson et al. 2020: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9491-2020
Watson-Paris et al., 2020: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087141
Park et al., 2020: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031699
Yoshioka et al., 2019: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001628
Gasslmeier et al., 2019: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10191-2019
Marshall et al., 2018: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028675
Wilcox et al., 2019: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9081-2019
Dong et al., 2019: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04698-0
Chen et al., 2019: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0777.1
Luo et al., 2020: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b34