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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 1929-1948Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-1929-2011
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- US Department of Energy's Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research
- China Ministry of Science and Technology
- NSF [ATM-0852775]
- DOE Office of Science
- Battelle Memorial Institute [DE-AC06-76RLO1830]
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The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has long been identified to be critical in regulating the Asian monsoon climate and hydrological cycle. In this modeling study a series of numerical experiments with a global climate model are designed to simulate radiative effect of black carbon (BC) and dust in snow, and to assess the relative impacts of anthropogenic CO2 and carbonaceous particles in the atmosphere and snow on the snowpack over the TP and subsequent impacts on the Asian monsoon climate and hydrological cycle. Simulations results show a large BC content in snow over the TP, especially the southern slope. Because of the high aerosol content in snow and large incident solar radiation in the low latitude and high elevation, the TP exhibits the largest surface radiative flux changes induced by aerosols (e.g. BC, Dust) in snow compared to any other snow-covered regions in the world.
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