Changes in Anthropogenic PM and the Resulting Global Climate Effects Under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 Scenarios by 2050
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Using an aerosolclimate model, we studied the temporal and spatial variations of anthropogenic PM (aerodynamic diameter 2.5 m) and coarse particulate matter (CPM; aerodynamic diameter 2.5 m) under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios from 2014 to 2050. The corresponding radiative forcing and climate responses were also explored. The PM burden decreases over most continents, especially East Asia. The CPM particles increase over northern Asia, North America, and central Africa, in contrast to decrease over most regions of East Asia and North Africa. Relative to 2014, the global annual mean effective radiative forcing due to changes in PM and CPM burden are 1.17 (1.10) and 0.06 ( 0.07) W m under RCP4.5 (RCP8.5), respectively. The reduction in PM burden leads to apparent warming, especially over high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, with global annual mean surface air temperature increasing by 1.25 K under RCP4.5, and 1.22 K under RCP8.5. In contrast, changes in CPM result in apparent cooling over North America and northern Asia, with global annual mean changes in surface air temperature of 0.10 K for both scenarios. The Northern Hemisphere Hadley cell weakens and moves northward due to changes in PM after 2014, whereas the corresponding circulation in the Southern Hemisphere is strengthened, with the Intertropical Convergence Zone shifting to 10°N. Global annual mean precipitation increases by 0.10 mm day under both scenarios. Generally, anthropogenic PM contributes significantly to future changes in radiative forcing and climate.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".