Effects of Sea Salt Aerosol Emissions for Marine Cloud Brightening on Atmospheric Chemistry: Implications for Radiative Forcing

Horowitz, Hannah M.; Holmes, Christopher; Wright, Alicia; Sherwen, Tomás; Wang, Xuan; Evans, Mat; Huang, Jiayue; Jaeglé, Lyatt; Chen, Qianjie; Zhai, Shuting; Alexander, Becky

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Effects of Sea Salt Aerosol Emissions for Marine Cloud Brightening on Atmospheric Chemistry: Implications for Radiative Forcing

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2020
By Horowitz, Hannah M. ; Holmes, Christopher ; Wright, Alicia ; ...

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Geophysical Research Letters
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Horowitz, Hannah M. ; Holmes, Christopher ; Wright, Alicia ; Sherwen, Tomás ; Wang, Xuan ; Evans, Mat ; Huang, Jiayue ; Jaeglé, Lyatt ; Chen, Qianjie ; Zhai, Shuting ; Alexander, Becky
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JISAO (Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean)
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Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is proposed to offset global warming by emitting sea salt aerosols to the tropical marine boundary layer, which increases aerosol and cloud albedo. Sea salt aerosol is the main source of tropospheric reactive chlorine (Cly) and bromine (Bry). The effects of additional sea salt on atmospheric chemistry have not been explored. We simulate sea salt aerosol injections for MCB under two scenarios (212–569 Tg/a) in the GEOS‐Chem global chemical transport model, only considering their impacts as a halogen source. Globally, tropospheric Cly and Bry increase (20–40%), leading to decreased ozone (−3 to −6%). Consequently, OH decreases (−3 to −5%), which increases the methane lifetime (3–6%). Our results suggest that the chemistry of the additional sea salt leads to minor total radiative forcing compared to that of the sea salt aerosol itself (~2%) but may have potential implications for surface ozone pollution in tropical coastal regions.
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General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
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Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085838
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0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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