Articles | Volume 17, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2387-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2387-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Review and perspective paper
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22 Mar 2024
Review and perspective paper |
| 22 Mar 2024
| 22 Mar 2024
Interactions between atmospheric composition and climate change – progress in understanding and future opportunities from AerChemMIP, PDRMIP, and RFMIP
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Research Division Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, Research Unit Maritime Meteorology, Kiel, Germany
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Vaishali Naik
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Fiona M. O'Connor
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Global Systems Institute, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Christopher J. Smith
Priestley International Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Paul Griffiths
Department of Chemistry, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ryan J. Kramer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
now at: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Toshihiko Takemura
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
Robert J. Allen
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change (iCLIMATE), Roskilde, Denmark
Matthew Kasoar
Department of Physics, Environment and Society, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Imperial College London, London, UK
Angshuman Modak
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Steven Turnock
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
University of Leeds Met Office Strategic (LUMOS) Research Group, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Department of Physics, Environment and Society, Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Imperial College London, London, UK
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Duncan Watson-Parris
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Daniel M. Westervelt
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Laura J. Wilcox
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Alcide Zhao
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
William J. Collins
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Michael Schulz
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Gunnar Myhre
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Piers M. Forster
Priestley International Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Data sets
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP): Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 6 WCRP https://aims2.llnl.gov/search/cmip6/?mip_ era=CMIP6&activity_id=AerChemMIP
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP): Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 6 WCRP https://aims2.llnl.gov/search/cmip6/?mip_era= CMIP6&activity_id=RFMIP
Precipitation Driver and Response Model-Intercomparision data (PDRMIP) WDCC https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/q?hierarchy_steps_ ss=PDRMIP
Executive editor
Understanding the changes that are occurring to the composition of the atmosphere is a core activity of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). This paper takes stock of the current state of understanding in this field and offers perspectives for change as the community moves into the next CMIP cycle.
Understanding the changes that are occurring to the composition of the atmosphere is a core...
Short summary
Climate scientists want to better understand modern climate change. Thus, climate model experiments are performed and compared. The results of climate model experiments differ, as assessed in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. This article gives insights into the challenges and outlines opportunities for further improving the understanding of climate change. It is based on views of a group of experts in atmospheric composition–climate interactions.
Climate scientists want to better understand modern climate change. Thus, climate model...
