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Chicxulub and Climate: Radiative Perturbations of Impact-Produced S-Bearing Gases
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We use one-dimensional (1D) atmospheric models coupled to a sulfate aerosol model to investigate climate forcing and short-term response to stratospheric sulfate aerosols produced by the reaction of S-bearing gases and water vapor released in the Chicxulub impact event. A 1D radiation model is used to assess the climate forcing due to the impact-related loading of S-bearing gases. The model suggests that a climate forcing 100 times larger than that from the Pinatubo volcanic eruption is associated with the Chicxulub impact event for at least 2 years after the impact. In particular, we find a saturation effect in the forcing, that is, there is no significant difference in the maximum forcing between the highest (approximately 300 Gt) and lowest (approximately 30 Gt) estimated stratospheric S-loading from the Chicxulub impact. However, higher S-loads increase the overall duration of the forcing by several months. We use a single column model for a preliminary investigation of the short-term climate response to the impact-related production of sulfate aerosols (the lack of horizontal feedbacks limits the usefulness of the single column model to the first few days after the impact). Compared with the present steady-state climate, the introduction of large amounts of sulfate aerosols in the stratosphere results in a significant cooling of the Earth's surface. A long-term climate response can only be investigated with the use of a three-dimensional atmospheric model, which allows f…
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“This is because the residence time of the dust (Holton et al., 1995; Pierazzo et al., 2003, 2 to 10years) is much shorter than the timescale of the carbon cycle (∼106 year) and hence would have little effect on the long-term evolution.”
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- Authors
- Pierazzo, E., Hahmann, A. N., & Sloan, L. C.
- Affiliations
- Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
- Atmospheric Sciences Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
- Venue
- Astrobiology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 99-118
- ISSN
- 1531-1074
- 1557-8070
- Cited by
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- Language
- en
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