831: The impact of black carbon on air quality and climate in the Arctic and the Himalayas

Principal investigator: Carolina Cavazos-Guerra

Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2013 to 12/2013
Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Final report

Publications

• * Cavazos-Guerra C., Lauer, A. and Rosenthal, E. (2017). Book Chapter: Clean Air and White Ice: Governing Black Carbon Emissions affecting the Arctic in “Arctic Governance in Global Perspective” Edited by K. Keil and S. Knecht. Palgrave Macmillan; doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3. In press: http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137508836. * Cavazos Guerra, C., Lauer, A., Herber, A. B., Butler, T. M., Rinke, A., and Dethloff, K. (2016)Implications on atmospheric dynamics and the effect on black carbon transport into the Eurasian Arctic based on the choice of land surface model schemes and reanalysis data in model simulations with WRF, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/acp-2016-942. http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2016-942/ * Cavazos-Guerra C., Lauer, A., Herber, A., Butler, B. (2016) Contribution of local emissions and the long-range transport to the black carbon concentrations in the Eurasian Arctic in WRF-Chem model simulations. Finnish Association for Aerosol Research(FAAR): Proceedings of the 2nd Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Conference and the 6th PEEX Meeting, Editors: Hanna K. Lappalainen, Alla Borisova, Dong Liang, Joonas Enroth and Markku Kulmala. http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/FAAR/reportseries/rs-180.pdf * C Cavazos Guerra, A Lauer, A B Herber, T M Butler (2016) Implications of the choice of land surface model schemes and reanalyzes data for initialization in model simulations with WRF to characterize atmospheric dynamics and the effect on black carbon concentrations into the Eurasian Arctic. presented at 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California, USA.12-17 December 2016
• Cavazos Guerra, C. and Lauer, A. (2014): The importance of physical parameterizations in WRF to reproduce atmospheric dynamics and BC transport in the arctic region: A sensitivity study - International REKLIM conference „Our climate our future; regional perspectives on a global challenge“. Conference proceedings, programme, abstracts, (Terra Nostra ; 2014), International REKLIM conference „Our climate our future; regional perspectives on a global challenge“ (Berlin, Germany 2014), p. 43-44.
• Mues and A. Lauer (2014) Air Quality modeling in the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding, presentation at international REKLIM conference “Our Climate – Our Future, Regional perspectives on a global challenge”, Berlin, Germany