Contribution of Black Carbon Aerosol to Drying of the Mediterranean

Tao Tang1, Drew T Shindell2, Bjorn Hallvard Samset3, Olivier Boucher4, Piers Forster5, Øivind Hodnebrog, Gunnar Myhre7, Jana Sillmann8, Apostolos Voulgarakis9, Timothy Andrews10, Gregory Faluvegi11, Dagmar Fläschner12, Trond Iverson13, Matthew Kasoar9, Viatchelsav V. Kharin14, Alf Kirkevag15, J F Lamarque16, Dirk Olivié17, Thomas Richardson18, Camilla Stjern19, Toshihiko Takemura20 and Francis W Zwiers21, (1)Duke University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, (3)CICERO, Oslo, Norway, (4)Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway, (7)Universtiy of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, (8)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (9)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (10)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (11)Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, Germany, (12)Norwegian Meteorogical Inst., Oslo, Norway, (13)Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (14)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Section for Climate Modelling and Air Pollution, Oslo, Norway, (15)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (17)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (18)CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, (19)Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, (20)University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada