Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-835-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-835-2023
Research article
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29 Aug 2023
Research article |  | 29 Aug 2023

The global impact of the transport sectors on the atmospheric aerosol and the resulting climate effects under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)

Mattia Righi, Johannes Hendricks, and Sabine Brinkop

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A global climate model is applied to quantify the impact of land transport, shipping, and aviation on aerosol and climate. The simulations show that these sectors provide relevant contributions to aerosol concentrations on the global scale and have a significant cooling effect on climate, which partly offsets their CO2 warming. Future projections under different scenarios show how the transport impacts can be related to the underlying storylines, with relevant consequences for policy-making.
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