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Mahowald N, Ginoux P, Okin GS, Kok J, Albani S, Balkanski Y, Chin M, Bergametti G, Eck TF, Pérez García-Pando C, Gkikas A, Gonçalves Ageitos M, Kim D, Klose M, LeGrand S, Li L, Marticorena B, Miller R, Ryder C, Zender C, Yu Y. Letter to the Editor regarding Chappell et al., 2023, "Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources". THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 949:174792. [PMID: 39033999 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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Yuan T, Song H, Oreopoulos L, Wood R, Bian H, Breen K, Chin M, Yu H, Barahona D, Meyer K, Platnick S. Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT 2024; 5:281. [PMID: 38826490 PMCID: PMC11139642 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01442-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
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Human activities affect the Earth's climate through modifying the composition of the atmosphere, which then creates radiative forcing that drives climate change. The warming effect of anthropogenic greenhouse gases has been partially balanced by the cooling effect of anthropogenic aerosols. In 2020, fuel regulations abruptly reduced the emission of sulfur dioxide from international shipping by about 80% and created an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock with global impact. Here we estimate the regulation leads to a radiative forcing of + 0.2 ± 0.11 Wm-2 averaged over the global ocean. The amount of radiative forcing could lead to a doubling (or more) of the warming rate in the 2020 s compared with the rate since 1980 with strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity. The warming effect is consistent with the recent observed strong warming in 2023 and expected to make the 2020 s anomalously warm. The forcing is equivalent in magnitude to 80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020. The radiative forcing also has strong hemispheric contrast, which has important implications for precipitation pattern changes. Our result suggests marine cloud brightening may be a viable geoengineering method in temporarily cooling the climate that has its unique challenges due to inherent spatiotemporal heterogeneity.
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Zhong Q, Schutgens N, van der Werf GR, Takemura T, van Noije T, Mielonen T, Checa-Garcia R, Lohmann U, Kirkevåg A, Olivié DJ, Kokkola H, Matsui H, Kipling Z, Ginoux P, Le Sager P, Rémy S, Bian H, Chin M, Zhang K, Bauer SE, Tsigaridis K. Threefold reduction of modeled uncertainty in direct radiative effects over biomass burning regions by constraining absorbing aerosols. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadi3568. [PMID: 38039365 PMCID: PMC10691779 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi3568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Absorbing aerosols emitted from biomass burning (BB) greatly affect the radiation balance, cloudiness, and circulation over tropical regions. Assessments of these impacts rely heavily on the modeled aerosol absorption from poorly constrained global models and thus exhibit large uncertainties. By combining the AeroCom model ensemble with satellite and in situ observations, we provide constraints on the aerosol absorption optical depth (AAOD) over the Amazon and Africa. Our approach enables identification of error contributions from emission, lifetime, and MAC (mass absorption coefficient) per model, with MAC and emission dominating the AAOD errors over Amazon and Africa, respectively. In addition to primary emissions, our analysis suggests substantial formation of secondary organic aerosols over the Amazon but not over Africa. Furthermore, we find that differences in direct aerosol radiative effects between models decrease by threefold over the BB source and outflow regions after correcting the identified errors. This highlights the potential to greatly reduce the uncertainty in the most uncertain radiative forcing agent.
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NOZU K, Appel G, Chin M, Fischbach B, Knebelmann B, Lieberman K, Meyer C, Pergola P, Rizk V. D, Silva L. A, Spinowitz B, Sprague M. S, Torra Balcells R, Zaoui P. POS-540 INTERIM ANALYSIS OF THE EAGLE TRIAL: AN OPEN-LABEL STUDY TO ASSESS THE LONG-TERM SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF BARDOXOLONE METHYL IN PATIENTS WITH ALPORT SYNDROME. Kidney Int Rep 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2022.01.571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Albart S, Loh H, Chin M, Looi I. P-OT016. The comparison of robotic glove training and conventional training in post-stroke hand impairment patients: A pilot randomized controlled trial protocol. Clin Neurophysiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.02.313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Kok JF, Adebiyi AA, Albani S, Balkanski Y, Checa-Garcia R, Chin M, Colarco PR, Hamilton DS, Huang Y, Ito A, Klose M, Leung DM, Li L, Mahowald NM, Miller RL, Obiso V, García-Pando CP, Rocha-Lima A, Wan JS, Whicker CA. Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2021; 21:8127-8167. [PMID: 37649640 PMCID: PMC10466066 DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-8127-2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution. These model errors are partially caused by fundamental difficulties in simulating dust emission in coarse-resolution models and in accurately representing dust microphysical properties. Here we mitigate these problems by developing a new methodology that yields an improved representation of the global dust cycle. We present an analytical framework that uses inverse modeling to integrate an ensemble of global model simulations with observational constraints on the dust size distribution, extinction efficiency, and regional dust aerosol optical depth. We then compare the inverse model results against independent measurements of dust surface concentration and deposition flux and find that errors are reduced by approximately a factor of two relative to current model simulations of the Northern Hemisphere dust cycle. The inverse model results show smaller improvements in the less dusty Southern Hemisphere, most likely because both the model simulations and the observational constraints used in the inverse model are less accurate. On a global basis, we find that the emission flux of dust with geometric diameter up to 20 μm (PM20) is approximately 5,000 Tg/year, which is greater than most models account for. This larger PM20 dust flux is needed to match observational constraints showing a large atmospheric loading of coarse dust. We obtain gridded data sets of dust emission, vertically integrated loading, dust aerosol optical depth, (surface) concentration, and wet and dry deposition fluxes that are resolved by season and particle size. As our results indicate that this data set is more accurate than current model simulations and the MERRA-2 dust reanalysis product, it can be used to improve quantifications of dust impacts on the Earth system.
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Yuan T, Yu H, Chin M, Remer LA, McGee D, Evan A. Anthropogenic Decline of African Dust: Insights From the Holocene Records and Beyond. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2020; 47:e2020GL089711. [PMID: 33281243 PMCID: PMC7685148 DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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African dust exhibits strong variability on a range of time scales. Here we show that the interhemispheric contrast in Atlantic SST (ICAS) drives African dust variability at decadal to millennial timescales, and the strong anthropogenic increase of the ICAS in the future will decrease African dust loading to a level never seen during the Holocene. We provide a physical framework to understand the relationship between the ICAS and African dust activity: positive ICAS anomalies push the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) northward and decrease surface wind speed over African dust source regions, which reduces dust emission and transport. It provides a unified framework for and is consistent with relationships in the literature. We find strong observational and proxy-record support for the ICAS-ITCZ-dust relationship during the past 160 and 17,000 years. Model-projected anthropogenic increase of the ICAS will reduce African dust by as much as 60%, which has broad consequences.
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Chin M, McIntosh ID, Somayaji R. Overlooking the landscape of palliative care in cystic fibrosis. J Cyst Fibros 2020; 19:336-338. [PMID: 32305179 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2020.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Yu H, Yang Y, Wang H, Tan Q, Chin M, Levy RC, Remer LA, Smith SJ, Yuan T, Shi Y. Interannual variability and trends of combustion aerosol and dust in major continental outflows revealed by MODIS retrievals and CAM5 simulations during 2003-2017. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2020; 20:139-161. [PMID: 33204243 PMCID: PMC7668156 DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-139-2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Emissions and long-range transport of mineral dust and combustion-related aerosol from burning fossil fuels and biomass vary from year to year, driven by the evolution of the economy and changes in meteorological conditions and environmental regulations. This study offers both satellite and model perspectives on the interannual variability and possible trends of combustion aerosol and dust in major continental outflow regions over the past 15 years (2003-2017). The decade-long record of aerosol optical depth (AOD, denoted as τ), separately for combustion aerosol (τ c) and dust (τ d), over global oceans is derived from the Collection 6 aerosol products of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard both Terra and Aqua. These MODIS Aqua datasets, complemented by aerosol source-tagged simulations using the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5), are then analyzed to understand the interannual variability and potential trends of τ c and τ d in the major continental outflows. Both MODIS and CAM5 consistently yield a similar decreasing trend of -0.017 to -0.020 per decade for τ c over the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea that is attributable to reduced emissions from North America and Europe, respectively. On the contrary, both MODIS and CAM5 display an increasing trend of +0.017 to +0.036 per decade for τ c over the tropical Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arabian Sea, which reflects the influence of increased anthropogenic emissions from South Asia and the Middle East in the last 2 decades. Over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, which is often affected by East Asian emissions of pollution and dust, the MODIS retrievals show a decreasing trend of -0.021 per decade for τ c and -0.012 per decade for τ d, which is, however, not reproduced by the CAM5 model. In other outflow regions strongly influenced by biomass burning smoke or dust, both MODIS retrievals and CAM5 simulations show no statistically significant trends; the MODIS-observed interannual variability is usually larger than that of the CAM5 simulation.
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McCleary BV, McNally M, Monaghan D, Mugford DC, Black C, Broadbent R, Chin M, Cormack M, Fox R, Gaines C, Gothard P, Home S, Howes; E, Johnson C, Keeping R, Koliatsou M, Lindhauer M, Marins de Sa R, Martin R, Monaghan D, Nees U, Nishwitz; R, Palmer G, Panozzo J, Recabarren J, Roumeliotis S, Seddig S, Solah V, Sonnet M, Themeier H. Measurement of α-Amylase Activity in White Wheat Flour, Milled Malt, and Microbial Enzyme Preparations, Using the Ceralpha Assay: Collaborative Study. J AOAC Int 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/jaoac/85.5.1096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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This study was conducted to evaluate the method performance of a rapid procedure for the measurement of α-amylase activity in flours and microbial enzyme preparations. Samples were milled (if necessary) to pass a 0.5 mm sieve and then extracted with a buffer/salt solution, and the extracts were clarified and diluted. Aliquots of diluted extract (containing α-amylase) were incubated with substrate mixture under defined conditions of pH, temperature, and time. The substrate used was nonreducing end-blocked p-nitrophenyl maltoheptaoside (BPNPG7) in the presence of excess quantities of thermostable α-glucosidase. The blocking group in BPNPG7 prevents hydrolysis of this substrate by exo-acting enzymes such as amyloglucosidase, α-glucosidase, and β-amylase. When the substrate is cleaved by endo-acting α-amylase, the nitrophenyl oligosaccharide is immediately and completely hydrolyzed to p-nitrophenol and free glucose by the excess quantities of α-glucosidase present in the substrate mixture. The reaction is terminated, and the phenolate color developed by the addition of an alkaline solution is measured at 400 nm. Amylase activity is expressed in terms of Ceralpha units; 1 unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to release 1 μmol p-nitrophenyl (in the presence of excess quantities of α-glucosidase) in 1 min at 40°C. In the present study, 15 laboratories analyzed 16 samples as blind duplicates. The analyzed samples were white wheat flour, white wheat flour to which fungal α-amylase had been added, milled malt, and fungal and bacterial enzyme preparations. Repeatability relative standard deviations ranged from 1.4 to 14.4%, and reproducibility relative standard deviations ranged from 5.0 to 16.7%.
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Lam W, Nowak A, Chen F, Muruganandan S, Arunachalam S, Chin M, Millward M, Read C, Murray K, Creaney J, Lee Y. MA23.01 Phase II Trial of an Oral FGFR Inhibitor AZD4547 as Second or Third Line Therapy in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Final Results of FRAME Study. J Thorac Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yu H, Tan Q, Chin M, Remer LA, Kahn RA, Bian H, Kim D, Zhang Z, Yuan T, Omar AH, Winker DM, Levy R, Kalashnikova O, Crepeau L, Capelle V, Chedin A. Estimates of African Dust Deposition Along the Trans-Atlantic Transit Using the Decade-long Record of Aerosol Measurements from CALIOP, MODIS, MISR, and IASI. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. ATMOSPHERES : JGR 2019; 124:7975-7996. [PMID: 32637291 PMCID: PMC7340100 DOI: 10.1029/2019jd030574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Deposition of mineral dust into ocean fertilizes ecosystems and influences biogeochemical cycles and climate. In-situ observations of dust deposition are scarce, and model simulations depend on the highly parameterized representations of dust processes with few constraints. By taking advantage of satellites' routine sampling on global and decadal scales, we estimate African dust deposition flux and loss frequency (LF, a ratio of deposition flux to mass loading) along the trans-Atlantic transit using the three-dimensional distributions of aerosol retrieved by spaceborne lidar (CALIOP) and radiometers (MODIS, MISR, and IASI). On the basis of a ten-year (2007-2016) and basin scale average, the amount of dust deposition into the tropical Atlantic Ocean is estimated at 136 - 222 Tg yr-1. The 65-83% of satellite-based estimates agree with the in-situ climatology within a factor of 2. The magnitudes of dust deposition are highest in boreal summer and lowest in fall, whereas the interannual variability as measured by the normalized standard deviation with mean is largest in spring (28-41%) and smallest (7-15%) in summer. The dust deposition displays high spatial heterogeneity, revealing that the meridional shifts of major dust deposition belts are modulated by the seasonal migration of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). On the basis of the annual and basin mean, the dust LF derived from the satellite observations ranges from 0.078 to 0.100 d-1, which is lower than model simulations by up to factors of 2 to 5. The most efficient loss of dust occurs in winter, consistent with the higher possibility of low-altitude transported dust in southern trajectories being intercepted by rainfall associated with the ITCZ. The satellite-based estimates of dust deposition can be used to fill the geographical gaps and extend time span of in-situ measurements, study the dust-ocean interactions, and evaluate model simulations of dust processes.
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Alrasheed N, Lee L, Ghorani E, Cohen O, Chavda S, Henry J, Furness A, Chin M, Galas-Filipowicz D, Conde L, De-Silva D, Quezada S, Yong K. PF563 MARROW INFILTRATING T-REGULATORY CELLS ASSOCIATE WITH PD-1 EXPRESSING CD4 EFFECTOR CELLS AND INFERIOR OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING NOVEL-AGENT REGIMENS FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM). Hemasphere 2019. [DOI: 10.1097/01.hs9.0000560544.93776.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Liang CK, West JJ, Silva RA, Bian H, Chin M, Davila Y, Dentener FJ, Emmons L, Flemming J, Folberth G, Henze D, Im U, Jonson JE, Keating TJ, Kucsera T, Lenzen A, Lin M, Lund MT, Pan X, Park RJ, Pierce RB, Sekiya T, Sudo K, Takemura T. HTAP2 multi-model estimates of premature human mortality due to intercontinental transport of air pollution and emission sectors. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 2018; 18:10497-10520. [PMID: 33204242 PMCID: PMC7668558 DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-10497-2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Ambient air pollution from ozone and fine particulate matter is associated with premature mortality. As emissions from one continent influence air quality over others, changes in emissions can also influence human health on other continents. We estimate global air pollution-related premature mortality from exposure to PM2.5 and ozone, and the avoided deaths from 20% anthropogenic emission reductions from six source regions, North America (NAM), Europe (EUR), South Asia (SAS), East Asia (EAS), Russia/Belarus/Ukraine (RBU) and the Middle East (MDE), three global emission sectors, Power and Industry (PIN), Ground Transportation (TRN) and Residential (RES) and one global domain (GLO), using an ensemble of global chemical transport model simulations coordinated by the second phase of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF-HTAP2), and epidemiologically-derived concentration-response functions. We build on results from previous studies of the TF-HTAP by using improved atmospheric models driven by new estimates of 2010 anthropogenic emissions (excluding methane), with more source and receptor regions, new consideration of source sector impacts, and new epidemiological mortality functions. We estimate 290,000 (95% CI: 30,000, 600,000) premature O3-related deaths and 2.8 million (0.5 million, 4.6 million) PM2.5-related premature deaths globally for the baseline year 2010. While 20% emission reductions from one region generally lead to more avoided deaths within the source region than outside, reducing emissions from MDE and RBU can avoid more O3-related deaths outside of these regions than within, and reducing MDE emissions also avoids more PM2.5-related deaths outside of MDE than within. Our findings that most avoided O3-related deaths from emission reductions in NAM and EUR occur outside of those regions contrast with those of previous studies, while estimates of PM2.5-related deaths from NAM, EUR, SAS and EAS emission reductions agree well. In addition, EUR, MDE and RBU have more avoided O3-related deaths from reducing foreign emissions than from domestic reductions. For six regional emission reductions, the total avoided extra-regional mortality is estimated as 6,000 (-3,400, 15,500) deaths/year and 25,100 (8,200, 35,800) deaths/year through changes in O3 and PM2.5, respectively. Interregional transport of air pollutants leads to more deaths through changes in PM2.5 than in O3, even though O3 is transported more on interregional scales, since PM2.5 has a stronger influence on mortality. For NAM and EUR, our estimates of avoided mortality from regional and extra-regional emission reductions are comparable to those estimated by regional models for these same experiments. In sectoral emission reductions, TRN emissions account for the greatest fraction (26-53% of global emission reduction) of O3-related premature deaths in most regions, in agreement with previous studies, except for EAS (58%) and RBU (38%) where PIN emissions dominate. In contrast, PIN emission reductions have the greatest fraction (38-78% of global emission reduction) of PM2.5-related deaths in most regions, except for SAS (45%) where RES emission dominates, which differs with previous studies in which RES emissions dominate global health impacts. The spread of air pollutant concentration changes across models contributes most to the overall uncertainty in estimated avoided deaths, highlighting the uncertainty in results based on a single model. Despite uncertainties, the health benefits of reduced intercontinental air pollution transport suggest that international cooperation may be desirable to mitigate pollution transported over long distances.
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Patel S, Hodi F, Gabrilovich D, Chin M, Gibney G, Goldsberry A, Gonzalez R, Hurt J, Markowitz J, Whitman E, Meyer C, Salama A. A phase 1b/2 study of omaveloxolone in combination with checkpoint inhibitors in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. Ann Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Balibrea-Correa J, Mendoza E, Cano-Ott D, Krtička M, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Durán I, Eleftheriadis C, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Furman V, Göbel K, Guerrero C, Gómez-Hornillos M, Ganesan S, García A, Giubrone G, Gonçalves I, González E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Gunsing F, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Hernández-Prieto A, Heyse J, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Karadimos D, Katabuchi T, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kivel N, Koehler P, Kokkoris M, Kroll J, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Leong L, Lerendegui-Marco J, Licata M, Losito R, Mallick A, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Paradela C, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada J, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Robles M, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vermeulen M, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement of the neutron capture cross section of the fissile isotope 235U with the CERN n_TOF total absorption calorimeter and a fission tagging based on micromegas detectors. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714611021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Dupont E, Otuka N, Cabellos O, Aberle O, Aerts G, Altstadt S, Alvarez H, Alvarez-Velarde F, Andriamonje S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Badurek G, Balibrea J, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Baumann P, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Belloni F, Berthier B, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brown A, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Capote R, Cardella R, Carrapiço C, Casanovas A, Castelluccio D, Cennini P, Cerutti F, Chen Y, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Cosentino L, Couture A, Cox J, Damone L, David S, Deo K, Diakaki M, Dillmann I, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dridi W, Duran I, Eleftheriadis C, Embid-Segura M, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrant L, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Fraval K, Frost R, Fujii K, Furman W, Ganesan S, Garcia A, Gawlik A, Gheorghe I, Gilardoni S, Giubrone G, Glodariu T, Göbel K, Gomez-Hornillos M, Goncalves I, Gonzalez-Romero E, Goverdovski A, Gramegna F, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Gurusamy P, Haight R, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heil M, Heinitz S, Hernández-Prieto A, Heyse J, Igashira M, Isaev S, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Kadi Y, Kaeppeler F, Kalamara A, Karadimos D, Karamanis D, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Kerveno M, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Konovalov V, Krtička M, Kroll J, Kurtulgil D, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Naour CL, Lerendegui-Marco J, Leong L, Licata M, Meo SL, Lonsdale S, Losito R, Lozano M, Macina D, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martinez T, Marrone S, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri E, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Montesano S, Moreau C, Mosconi M, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, O’Brien S, Oprea A, Palomo-Pinto F, Pancin J, Paradela C, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Pavlopoulos P, Perkowski J, Perrot L, Pigni M, Plag R, Plompen A, Plukis L, Poch A, Porras I, Praena J, Pretel C, Quesada J, Radeck D, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego A, Robles M, Roman F, Rout P, Rudolf G, Rubbia C, Rullhusen P, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Salgado J, Santos C, Sarchiapone L, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith A, Sosnin N, Stamatopoulos A, Stephan C, Suryanarayana S, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tavora L, Terlizzi R, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Versaci R, Vermeulen M, Villamarin D, Vicente M, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Voss F, Wallner A, Walter S, Ware T, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wolf C, Wiesher M, Wisshak K, Woods P, Wright T, Žugec P. Dissemination of data measured at the CERN n_TOF facility. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714607002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Mendoza E, Cano-Ott D, Altstadt S, Andriamonje S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Balibrea J, Bécares V, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthier B, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Diakaki M, Dillmann I, Domingo-Pardo C, Durán I, Dzysiuk N, Eleftheriadis C, Fernández-Ordóñez M, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Furman V, Gómez-Hornillos M, Ganesan S, García A, Giubrone G, Gonçalves I, González E, Goverdovski A, Gramegna F, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Gurusamy P, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Hernández-Prieto A, Heyse J, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Karadimos D, Katabuchi T, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Koehler P, Kokkoris M, Kroll J, Krtička M, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Leong L, Lerendegui-Marco J, Licata M, Losito R, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Paradela C, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada J, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Robles M, Roman F, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vermeulen M, Versaci R, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wright T, Žugec P. Measurement of the 241Am neutron capture cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714611022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Lau WKM, Kim KM, Shi JJ, Matsui T, Chin M, Tan Q, Peters-Lidard C, Tao WK. Impacts of aerosol-monsoon interaction on rainfall and circulation over Northern India and the Himalaya Foothills. CLIMATE DYNAMICS 2017; 49:1945-1960. [PMID: 32801479 PMCID: PMC7427820 DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3430-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The boreal summer of 2008 was unusual for the Indian monsoon, featuring exceptional heavy loading of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and northern-central India, near normal all-India rainfall, but excessive heavy rain, causing disastrous flooding in the Northern Indian Himalaya Foothills (NIHF) regions, accompanied by persistent drought conditions in central and southern India. Using NASA Unified-physics Weather Research Forecast (NUWRF) model with fully interactive aerosol physics and dynamics, we carried out three sets of 7-day ensemble model forecast experiments: 1) control with no aerosol, 2) aerosol radiative effect only and 3) aerosol radiative and aerosol-cloud-microphysics effects, to study the impacts of aerosol-monsoon interactions on monsoon variability over the NIHF during the summer of 2008. Results show that aerosol-radiation interaction (ARI), i.e., dust aerosol transport, and dynamical feedback processes induced by aerosol-radiative heating, plays a key role in altering the large-scale monsoon circulation system, reflected by an increased north-south tropospheric temperature gradient, a northward shift of heavy monsoon rainfall, advancing the monsoon onset by 1-5 days over the HF, consistent with the EHP hypothesis (Lau et al. 2006). Additionally, we found that dust aerosols, via the semi-direct effect, increase atmospheric stability, and cause the dissipation of a developing monsoon onset cyclone over northeastern India/northern Bay of Bengal. Eventually, in a matter of several days, ARI transforms the developing monsoon cyclone into meso-scale convective cells along the HF slopes. Aerosol-Cloud-microphysics Interaction (ACI) further enhances the ARI effect in invigorating the deep convection cells and speeding up the transformation processes. Results indicate that even in short-term (up to weekly) numerical forecasting of monsoon circulation and rainfall, effects of aerosol-monsoon interaction can be substantial and cannot be ignored.
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Kim D, Chin M, Kemp EM, Tao Z, Peters-Lidard CD, Ginoux P. Development of High-Resolution Dynamic Dust Source Function -A Case Study with a Strong Dust Storm in a Regional Model. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT (OXFORD, ENGLAND : 1994) 2017; 159:11-25. [PMID: 29632432 PMCID: PMC5887124 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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A high-resolution dynamic dust source has been developed in the NASA Unified-Weather Research and Forecasting (NU-WRF) model to improve the existing coarse static dust source. In the new dust source map, topographic depression is in 1-km resolution and surface bareness is derived using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The new dust source better resolves the complex topographic distribution over the Western United States where its magnitude is higher than the existing, coarser resolution static source. A case study is conducted with an extreme dust storm that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona in 02-03 UTC July 6, 2011. The NU-WRF model with the new high-resolution dynamic dust source is able to successfully capture the dust storm, which was not achieved with the old source identification. However the case study also reveals several challenges in reproducing the time evolution of the short-lived, extreme dust storm events.
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Rhodes D, Chenet DA, Janicek BE, Nyby C, Lin Y, Jin W, Edelberg D, Mannebach E, Finney N, Antony A, Schiros T, Klarr T, Mazzoni A, Chin M, Chiu YC, Zheng W, Zhang QR, Ernst F, Dadap JI, Tong X, Ma J, Lou R, Wang S, Qian T, Ding H, Osgood RM, Paley DW, Lindenberg AM, Huang PY, Pasupathy AN, Dubey M, Hone J, Balicas L. Engineering the Structural and Electronic Phases of MoTe 2 through W Substitution. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:1616-1622. [PMID: 28145719 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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MoTe2 is an exfoliable transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that crystallizes in three symmetries: the semiconducting trigonal-prismatic 2H- or α-phase, the semimetallic and monoclinic 1T'- or β-phase, and the semimetallic orthorhombic γ-structure. The 2H-phase displays a band gap of ∼1 eV making it appealing for flexible and transparent optoelectronics. The γ-phase is predicted to possess unique topological properties that might lead to topologically protected nondissipative transport channels. Recently, it was argued that it is possible to locally induce phase-transformations in TMDs, through chemical doping, local heating, or electric-field to achieve ohmic contacts or to induce useful functionalities such as electronic phase-change memory elements. The combination of semiconducting and topological elements based upon the same compound might produce a new generation of high performance, low dissipation optoelectronic elements. Here, we show that it is possible to engineer the phases of MoTe2 through W substitution by unveiling the phase-diagram of the Mo1-xWxTe2 solid solution, which displays a semiconducting to semimetallic transition as a function of x. We find that a small critical W concentration xc ∼ 8% stabilizes the γ-phase at room temperature. This suggests that crystals with x close to xc might be particularly susceptible to phase transformations induced by an external perturbation, for example, an electric field. Photoemission spectroscopy, indicates that the γ-phase possesses a Fermi surface akin to that of WTe2.
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Leal-Cidoncha E, Durán I, Paradela C, Tassan-Got L, Audouin L, Leal L, Naour CL, Noguere G, Tarrío D, Leong L, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Barbagallo M, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Eleftheriadis C, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Ganesan S, García A, Giubrone G, Gómez-Hornillos M, Gonçalves I, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Gurusamy P, Hernández-Prieto A, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Kadi Y, Käppeler F, Karadimos D, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Kroll J, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Lederer C, Leeb H, Losito R, Mallick A, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Meaze M, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada J, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego A, Robles M, Roman F, Rubbia C, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Versaci R, Vermeulen M, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wright T, Žugec P. High accuracy 234U(n,f) cross section in the resonance energy region. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714604057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Mingrone F, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Barbagallo M, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Boccone V, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Colonna N, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Durán I, Eleftheriadis C, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Furman V, Göbel K, Gómez-Hornillos M, Ganesan S, García A, Giubrone G, Gonçalves I, González E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Heftrich T, Hernández-Prieto A, Heyse J, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Karadimos D, Katabuchi T, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kivel N, Koehler P, Kokkoris M, Kroll J, Krtička M, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Leong L, Lerendegui-Marco J, Losito R, Mallick A, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Paradela C, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada J, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Robles M, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vermeulen M, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wright T, Žugec P. High precision measurement of the radiative capture cross section of 238U at the n_TOF CERN facility. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714611028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Mastromarco M, Barbagallo M, Vermeulen M, Colonna N, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Belloni F, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Carrapiço C, Cerutti F, Chiaveri E, Chin M, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo M, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Durán I, Dzysiuk N, Eleftheriadis C, Ferrari A, Fraval K, Furman V, Gómez-Hornillos M, Ganesan S, García A, Giubrone G, Gonçalves I, González E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Gurusamy P, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Hernández-Prieto A, Heyse J, Jenkins D, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Karadimos D, Katabuchi T, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Koehler P, Kokkoris M, Kroll J, Krtička M, Lampoudis C, Langer C, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Leong L, Lerendegui-Marco J, Licata M, Losito R, Manousos A, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo P, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Mondelaers W, Paradela C, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Plompen A, Praena J, Quesada J, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Robles M, Roman F, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Sarmento R, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Tagliente G, Tain J, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tarrío D, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Versaci R, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Ware T, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wright T, Žugec P. The 236U neutron capture cross-section measured at the n_TOF CERN facility. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201714611054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Xue Y, De Sales F, Lau WKM, Boone A, Kim KM, Mechoso CR, Wang G, Kucharski F, Schiro K, Hosaka M, Li S, Druyan LM, Seidou Sanda I, Thiaw W, Zeng N, Comer RE, Lim YK, Mahanama S, Song G, Gu Y, Hagos SM, Chin M, Schubert S, Dirmeyer P, Leung LR, Kalnay E, Kitoh A, Lu CH, Mahowald NM, Zhang Z. West African monsoon decadal variability and surface-related forcings: Second West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project Experiment (WAMME II). CLIMATE DYNAMICS 2016; 47:3517-3545. [PMID: 32742080 PMCID: PMC7394317 DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3224-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2016] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The second West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project Experiment (WAMME II) is designed to improve understanding of the possible roles and feedbacks of sea surface temperature (SST), land use land cover change (LULCC), and aerosols forcings in the Sahel climate system at seasonal to decadal scales. The project's strategy is to apply prescribed observationally based anomaly forcing, i.e., "idealized but realistic" forcing, in simulations by climate models. The goal is to assess these forcings' effects in producing/amplifying seasonal and decadal climate variability in the Sahel between the 1950s and the 1980s, which is selected to characterize the great drought period of the last century. This is the first multi-model experiment specifically designed to simultaneously evaluate such relative contributions. The WAMME II models have consistently demonstrated that SST forcing is a major contributor to the 20th century Sahel drought. Under the influence of the maximum possible SST forcing, the ensemble mean of WAMME II models can produce up to 60% of the precipitation difference during the period. The present paper also addresses the role of SSTs in triggering and maintaining the Sahel drought. In this regard, the consensus of WAMME II models is that both Indian and Pacific Ocean SSTs greatly contributed to the drought, with the former producing an anomalous displacement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) before the WAM onset, and the latter mainly contributes to the summer WAM drought. The WAMME II models also show that the impact of LULCC forcing on the Sahel climate system is weaker than that of SST forcing, but still of first order magnitude. According to the results, under LULCC forcing the ensemble mean of WAMME II models can produces about 40% of the precipitation difference between the 1980s and the 1950s. The role of land surface processes in responding to and amplifying the drought is also identified. The results suggest that catastrophic consequences are likely to occur in the regional Sahel climate when SST anomalies in individual ocean basins and in land conditions combine synergistically to favor drought.
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