Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

@article{Quaas2022RobustEF,  title={Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing},  author={Johannes Quaas and Hailing Jia and Christopher J. Smith and Anna Lea Albright and Wenche Aas and Nicolas Bellouin and Olivi{\'e}r Boucher and Marie Doutriaux-Boucher and Piers M. Forster and Daniel Peter Grosvenor and Stuart Jenkins and Zbigniew Klimont and Norman G. Loeb and Xiaoyan Ma and Vaishali Naik and Fabien Paulot and Philip Stier and Martin Wild and Gunnar Myhre and Michael Schulz},  journal={Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},  year={2022},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:252446168}}
Abstract. Anthropogenic aerosols exert a cooling influence that offsets part of the greenhouse gas warming. Due to their short tropospheric lifetime of only several days, the aerosol forcing responds quickly to emissions. Here, we present and discuss the evolution of the aerosol forcing since 2000. There are multiple lines of evidence that allow us to robustly conclude that the anthropogenic aerosol effective radiative forcing (ERF) – both aerosol–radiation interactions (ERFari) and aerosol… 

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