Aerosol impacts on Earth’s energy balance
Overview
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change addressed the need of reducing scientific uncertainties regarding the role of aerosols on climate change and identified indirect aerosol forcing of climate as the largest contributor to uncertainty in global climate modelling. Our modelling tools can be used to investigate these aerosol-chemistry-climate interactions and project how the composition of the atmosphere and the climate may change. The role of the mineral dust and organic aerosol components on the ability of atmospheric particles to absorb water, which is currently overlooked by climate models, is a major focus of our research.
Research areas
- Quantify how atmospheric aerosols can impact the climate in the future
- Explore the interactions of atmospheric pollutants with natural components and how does this influence their impacts on global climate
- Investigate the effects of organic aerosol photochemical aging on total aerosol hygroscopicity and radiative forcing
- Impacts of specific aerosol components on the resilience of the Earth’s energy balance and how they contribute to the calculated aerosol radiative forcing
- Effects of climate change mitigation strategies on the formation of specific aerosol components
Contact person
Dr. Vlassis Karydis
Senior Scientist Head of group "Atmospheric Aerosol Modelling"
Last Modified: 14.03.2025