Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone

Robert J. Allen (), Steven C. Sherwood, Joel R. Norris and Charles S. Zender
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Robert J. Allen: University of California, Riverside 92521, USA
Steven C. Sherwood: Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science, University of New South Wales
Joel R. Norris: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California
Charles S. Zender: Earth System Science, University of California

Nature, 2012, vol. 485, issue 7398, 350-354

Abstract: The primary drivers of the Northern Hemisphere expansion of the tropical climate zone over the past several decades are shown to be the recent increases in black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone rather than in greenhouse gases, which contribute to a lesser extent.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nature11097

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