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We acknowledge the E-OBS data set from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECAD project (http://www.ecad.eu). This research has been carried out with the support of the Project REPAIR (CGL2014-59677-R), funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) and the FEDER European program. Rocio Baro acknowledges the FPU scholarship (Ref. FPU12/05642) by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte. Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero acknowledges the fellowship 19677/EE/14 of the Programme Jimenez de la Espada de Movilidad, Cooperacion e Internacionalizacion (Fundacion Seneca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnologia de la Region de Murcia, PCTIRM 2011-2014). Finally, we acknowledge the support of the European groups through COST Action ES1004 Eu-MetChem and the Air Quality Modelling Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII).

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Regional effects of atmospheric aerosols on temperature: an evaluation of an ensemble of online coupled models

Publicated to:Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics. 17 (15): 9677-9696 - 2017-08-11 17(15), DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-9677-2017

Authors: Baro, Rocio; Palacios-Pena, Laura; Baklanov, Alexander; Balzarini, Alessandra; Brunner, Dominik; Forkel, Renate; Hirtl, Marcus; Honzak, Luka; Perez, Juan Luis; Pirovano, Guido; Schroeder, Wolfram; Werhahn, Johannes; Wolke, Ralf; Zabkar, Rahela; Jimenez-Guerrero, Pedro

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BO MO Doo, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Author
Empa, Swiss Fed Labs Mat Sci & Technol, Lab Air Pollut Environm Technol, Dubendorf, Switzerland - Author
KIT, Inst Meteorol & Klimaforsch, Atmosphar Umweltforsch IMK IFU, Karlsruhe, Germany - Author
Leibniz Inst Tropospher Res, Permoserstr, Leipzig, Germany - Author
RSE, Milan, Italy - Author
Slovenian Environm Agcy, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Author
Tech Univ Madrid, Comp Sci Sch, Environm Software & Modelling Grp, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Murcia, Dept Phys, Reg Campus Int Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain - Author
World Meteorol Org, Geneva, Switzerland - Author
ZAMG Zent Anstalt Meteorol & Geodynam, Div Data Methods Modelling, Sect Chem Weather Forecasts, Vienna, Austria - Author
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Abstract

The climate effect of atmospheric aerosols is associated with their influence on the radiative budget of the Earth due to the direct aerosol-radiation interactions (ARIs) and indirect effects, resulting from aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions (ACIs). Online coupled meteorology-chemistry models permit the description of these effects on the basis of simulated atmospheric aerosol concentrations, although there is still some uncertainty associated with the use of these models. Thus, the objective of this work is to assess whether the inclusion of atmospheric aerosol radiative feedbacks of an ensemble of online coupled models improves the simulation results for maximum, mean and minimum temperature at 2m over Europe. The evaluated models outputs originate from EuMetChem COST Action ES1004 simulations for Europe, differing in the inclusion (or omission) of ARI and ACI in the various models. The cases studies cover two important atmospheric aerosol episodes over Europe in the year 2010: (i) a heat wave event and a forest fire episode (July-August 2010) and (ii) a more humid episode including a Saharan desert dust outbreak in October 2010. The simulation results are evaluated against observational data from the E-OBS gridded database. The results indicate that, although there is only a slight improvement in the bias of the simulation results when including the radiative feedbacks, the spatiotemporal variability and correlation coefficients are improved for the cases under study when atmospheric aerosol radiative effects are included.

Keywords

Air-qualityChemistry-meteorology modelsClimate-changeFeedbacksImpactPollutionPrecipitation extremesResolutionWild-land firesWrf-chem contributions

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2017, it was in position 4/86, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.41, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-17, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 13
  • Scopus: 15

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-17:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 37.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 38 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Austria; Germany; Italy; Slovenia; Switzerland.