Aerosols and Climate

Ken S. Carslaw is Professor at the School of Earth and Environment in the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Since 1999, he has led a large aerosol, cloud and climate research group of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at Leeds. His group developed the Global Model of Aerosol Processes (GLOMAP) that is implemented in the UK Met Office climate model. His research has spanned a wide range of topics in the field of aerosols and climate, with publications on natural aerosols, Arctic aerosols, aerosol formation, dust and biogeochemistry, ice-nucleating particles, radiative forcing, volcanic impacts, paleo-aerosols, air quality, uncertainty quantification, geoengineering, and stratospheric aerosols. He has published more than 200 papers. In 2001, Prof. Carslaw was a cofounding editor of the EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and he remains its Executive Editor. He has received several awards for his research, including the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. He is Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has been a Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) Highly Cited Scientist every year since 2014.

1. Introduction 2. Aerosol in the climate system 3. Aerosol in the Earth system 4. Global aerosol properties 5. Aerosol processes 6. Aerosol-climate modelling 7. Historical changes in aerosol 8. Aerosol and precursor gas emissions 9. Measurements of ambient aerosol properties 10. Remote sensing measurements of aerosol properties 11. Aerosol-radiation interactions 12. Aerosol-cloud interactions in liquid clouds 13. Atmospheric and oceanic dynamical responses to changes in aerosol 14. Aerosol interactions with deep convection 15. Ice-nucleating particles and their effects on clouds and radiation 16. Aerosol processes in high-latitude environments and the effects on climate 17. Volcanic aerosol properties, processes, and climatic effects 18. Climate engineering 19. Aerosols in climate and air quality policy