Aerosol demasking enhances climate warming over South Asia

Abstract Anthropogenic aerosols mask the climate warming caused by greenhouse gases (GHGs). In the absence of observational constraints, large uncertainties plague the estimates of this masking effect. Here we used the abrupt reduction in anthropogenic emissions observed during the COVID-19 societal...

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Main Authors: H. R. C. R. Nair, Krishnakant Budhavant, M. R. Manoj, August Andersson, S. K. Satheesh, V. Ramanathan, Örjan Gustafsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00367-6