Extended Data Fig. 5: Spatial distribution of the SLH-driven change in radiative effect (ΔRE) for individual SLCF.
From: Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate
ΔRE for methane (a,b,c; top row), ozone (d,e,f; middle row) and aerosols (g,h,i; bottom row) with respect to the pre-industrial period are shown for the AANE+ANT simulations. Note that methane presents a pronounced enhancement for both RCP 6.0 and RCP 8.5, while for the case of ozone ΔRE for present-day and future RCP 8.5 scenarios is larger than for the future RCP 6.0 because the latter presents more stringent air-pollutants reductions. ΔRE for aerosols shows a pronounced spatial-distribution, presenting positive and negative variations due to the different contributions of sulfate, ammonium nitrate and SOA (see Extended Data Fig. 4). All maps and elements were created by our research group using Matplotlib Basemap for Phyton.
