Aerosol: A key piece of the climate cha...(h an uncertain factor in climate change....)

Date:5/8/2009

h an uncertain factor in climate change. But unlike greenhouse gases, which have clear sources and spread evenly through the atmosphere, aerosols are affected by a range of complex factors including weather patterns, so it is much harder to predict their climatic effect.

The project, which also involves the Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of Oxford, aims to design advanced global models of aerosols by identifying specific processes that lead to aerosol production and try and quantify the levels of uncertainty of each.

The work will draw heavily on existing data sets from aircraft, surface observatories and satellites that have yet to be fully exploited and the global aerosol model that has already been developed at Leeds (Global Model of Aerosol Processes).

The Aerosol Model Robustness and Sensitivity Study (AEROS) is a 3-year study funded by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK.

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Contact: Clare Ryan c.s.ryan@leeds.ac.uk 44-011-334-38059 University of Leeds Source:Eurekalert

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