Per the linked article from the US DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "For the past 20 years, a large portion of the particles measured in the atmosphere were missing from models. At best, models were able to explain one-tenth of the carbon-rich secondary organic aerosols, or SOA, measured in the air. The problem turned out to be a series of fundamental assumptions used in the models due to a lack of experimental data."
As SOA's tend to mask global warming, the discussed improvements of the climate models to include 10 times more SOA implies that if climate change stresses the planet's biomass sufficiently to decrease future SOA emissions with continued global warming; then the world will be subjected to a higher effective ECS.
http://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=3983See also:
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