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Dissipating the correlation smokescreen: Causal decomposition of the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols over the South-East Atlantic

Emilie Fons , Isabel L. McCoy , Tom Beucler , David Neubauer , Ulrike Lohmann
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keywords biomass burning aerosolsSouth-East Atlanticcausal inferenceradiative effectsaerosol-radiation interactionsaerosol-cloud interactionsstratocumulusshortwave radiation
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The pith

Biomass burning aerosols over the South-East Atlantic cause a shortwave cooling of -2.5 W m^{-2} during the fire season, equally split among three pathways.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a causal inference method using graphs on satellite data to separate the true effects of biomass burning aerosols from confounding weather factors. It shows that the aerosols cool the region by 2.5 watts per square meter in shortwave radiation. This cooling breaks down into three equal parts from direct aerosol-radiation interactions, adjustments following those interactions, and aerosol-cloud interactions. The method reveals how simple correlations can mislead by 15 to 50 percent due to confounding factors like winds and humidity biases in data. This separation provides clearer observational targets for climate models to match when simulating smoke impacts.

Core claim

During the fire season, biomass burning aerosols cause a regional shortwave cooling of -2.5 W m^{-2}, which can be decomposed into equal contributions from three physical pathways: aerosol-radiation interactions (ARI), adjustments to ARI, and aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI). This decomposition is obtained by using a physically informed statistical approach based on causal graphs applied to satellite observations, which disentangles the BBA influences while identifying sources of bias in correlative studies.

What carries the argument

Causal graphs applied to satellite observations, which structure the variables to block confounding paths from meteorology and retrieval biases, thereby isolating the causal radiative effects of the aerosols.

If this is right

  • The radiative cooling effect is attributed in equal measure to direct aerosol-radiation interactions, adjustments to those interactions, and aerosol-cloud interactions.
  • Observational studies that rely on correlations without causal adjustments can produce biased estimates of the radiative effects ranging from -50% to +15%.
  • The resulting causal estimates serve as observational constraints to reduce uncertainties in climate model representations of biomass burning aerosol effects.
  • Graph ablation experiments identify large-scale winds, humidity-biased retrievals, and spatial data aggregation as primary sources of confounding bias.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The causal approach could be extended to other regions with aerosol-cloud interactions to provide more reliable observational benchmarks for models.
  • If the equal contribution of the three pathways holds in other seasons or locations, models would need to balance improvements across all pathways rather than emphasizing one.
  • Additional satellite or in-situ data on humidity profiles could further test and refine the causal graph structure to address potential remaining biases.

Load-bearing premise

The causal graph includes all relevant physical relationships and successfully blocks or corrects for confounding factors such as meteorological influences and satellite retrieval biases.

What would settle it

Independent high-resolution model simulations or targeted field measurements where the true causal effects of the aerosols are known, allowing direct comparison to the estimated -2.5 W m^{-2} cooling and its decomposition.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.08055 by David Neubauer, Emilie Fons, Isabel L. McCoy, Tom Beucler, Ulrike Lohmann.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic causal pathways for the shortwave radiative effects of BBAs. The direct, indirect and semi-direct pathways are shown in green, purple and blue, respectively. In grey, dotted arrows show how confounding meteorological influences can bias the statistical estimate of BBA radiative effects. climate models (e.g. AeroCom II models) suffer from uncertainties related to fire emission modeling and paramet… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Summary of the method, decomposed in 4 steps, from (1.) assumption of the reference causal graph to (4.) computation of biases in radiative effect estimates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: shows the computed values of every causal arrow featured in the reference causal graph (Step 2 in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: BBA radiative effect per pathway: (a) direct, (b) indirect, (c) semi-direct and (d) resulting total (note the different colorscale). The region-average BBA shortwave radiative effect is displayed in the upper left corner. Stippling indicates where the bootstrap confidence intervals include 0. 3.3. Sources of confounding In Step 4 of the analysis, the reference graph is modified ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Biases in smoke radiative effect caused by different sources of confounding. 4. Conclusions and perspectives We applied causal inference to estimate the observed radiative effect of smoke aerosols over the South￾East Atlantic. We find that BBAs cause a total radiative effect of -2.5 W m−2 with approximately equal contributions from the direct, indirect and semi-direct effects. Contrary to many modeling stu… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Biomass burning aerosols (BBAs) from Southern Africa seasonally overlie the semi-permanent South-East Atlantic (SEA) stratocumulus deck, impacting the region's energy budget through complex aerosol-cloud-radiation-meteorology interactions. Climate model intercomparison initiatives, like the Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models (AeroCom), have highlighted the large inter-model variability for BBA radiative effects, especially over the SEA, due to parameterization of emission modeling and smoke properties. Observational constraints are needed to reduce these uncertainties, but correlative observational studies are typically affected by confounding meteorological influences. We propose a physically informed statistical approach, based on causal graphs applied to satellite observations, to disentangle BBA influences on shortwave radiation over the SEA and identify the main sources of statistical biases plaguing observational studies. We find that, during the fire season, BBAs cause a regional shortwave cooling of -2.5 W m$^{-2}$, which can be decomposed into equal contributions from three physical pathways: aerosol-radiation interactions (ARI), adjustments to ARI, and aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI). We also perform ablation experiments with graph variants to investigate the main sources of confounding - like large-scale winds, humidity-biased retrievals or spatial aggregation of data - and show that they result in biased radiative effect estimates (between -50 $\%$ and +15 $\%$). Once free of such biases, our derived causal estimates of smoke radiative effects can be used as observational constraints to improve climate models.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript applies causal graphs to satellite observations to isolate the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols (BBAs) over the South-East Atlantic stratocumulus region. It reports a net shortwave cooling of -2.5 W m^{-2} during the fire season that decomposes into equal contributions from aerosol-radiation interactions (ARI), ARI adjustments, and aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI). Ablation tests on alternative graph structures are used to quantify biases arising from large-scale winds, humidity-related retrieval artifacts, and spatial aggregation, with deviations ranging from -50% to +15%.

Significance. If the causal identification is valid, the work supplies an observationally constrained estimate of BBA radiative forcing that can serve as a benchmark for AeroCom-style model intercomparisons. The explicit decomposition into three physical pathways offers mechanistic guidance for parameterization development, while the ablation experiments provide a transparent robustness check that is uncommon in correlative aerosol studies. The method of using do-calculus adjustments on satellite data to address confounding represents a methodological advance for the field.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods (causal graph construction)] Methods (causal graph and identification): The headline -2.5 W m^{-2} value and the claimed equality of the three pathways rest on the assumption that the retained DAG blocks all backdoor paths from meteorology and retrieval biases to both BBA loading and shortwave flux. The ablation results show shifts up to 50% across graph variants, yet the manuscript provides no formal demonstration (e.g., via additional sensitivity tests with reanalysis subsidence or hygroscopicity proxies) that the chosen graph is complete. This directly affects the quantitative claim and the decomposition.
  2. [Results] Results (error propagation and data processing): The abstract and results present the -2.5 W m^{-2} estimate without accompanying uncertainty ranges derived from retrieval errors, sampling variability, or the causal adjustment formula. The soundness of the central numerical result cannot be evaluated until the full data-processing pipeline and propagation of uncertainties are documented.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract could state the exact spatial domain and months over which the -2.5 W m^{-2} regional average is computed.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions should explicitly label which graph variant corresponds to the primary result versus the ablation cases.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive review and positive evaluation of the manuscript's significance. We respond to each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Methods (causal graph construction)] Methods (causal graph and identification): The headline -2.5 W m^{-2} value and the claimed equality of the three pathways rest on the assumption that the retained DAG blocks all backdoor paths from meteorology and retrieval biases to both BBA loading and shortwave flux. The ablation results show shifts up to 50% across graph variants, yet the manuscript provides no formal demonstration (e.g., via additional sensitivity tests with reanalysis subsidence or hygroscopicity proxies) that the chosen graph is complete. This directly affects the quantitative claim and the decomposition.

    Authors: We agree that the validity of the headline estimate and the equal decomposition into ARI, ARI adjustments, and ACI hinges on the chosen DAG blocking all relevant backdoor paths. The graph is constructed from established physical understanding of meteorology-aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions over the SEA stratocumulus region, and the ablation experiments on alternative structures already quantify the magnitude of biases from unaccounted confounders (large-scale winds, humidity artifacts, spatial aggregation), producing deviations between -50% and +15%. These ablations serve as a transparent robustness check. However, we acknowledge that additional formal sensitivity tests using reanalysis subsidence rates and hygroscopicity proxies would provide stronger evidence that no material backdoor paths remain unblocked. We will incorporate these tests in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results (error propagation and data processing): The abstract and results present the -2.5 W m^{-2} estimate without accompanying uncertainty ranges derived from retrieval errors, sampling variability, or the causal adjustment formula. The soundness of the central numerical result cannot be evaluated until the full data-processing pipeline and propagation of uncertainties are documented.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of uncertainty ranges limits evaluation of the central -2.5 W m^{-2} estimate. The current manuscript prioritizes the causal decomposition and the ablation-based bias quantification but does not include a full propagation of retrieval errors, sampling variability, or uncertainties from the do-calculus adjustment. In the revision we will document the complete data-processing pipeline in the methods and add uncertainty ranges obtained via bootstrap resampling and analytic propagation through the causal formula. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: causal effect computed from data under assumed DAG

full rationale

The paper estimates the shortwave radiative effect of biomass burning aerosols by applying do-calculus (or equivalent adjustment) to satellite retrievals conditioned on a proposed causal graph. The reported value of -2.5 W m^{-2} and the equal three-way decomposition into ARI, ARI adjustments, and ACI are direct outputs of this adjustment procedure applied to the observational data. No equation defines the target quantity in terms of itself, no fitted parameter is relabeled as a prediction, and no self-citation supplies a load-bearing uniqueness theorem or ansatz. Ablation tests on graph variants quantify sensitivity but do not create self-referential reduction. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external data once the graph is stipulated.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, invented entities, or non-standard axioms; the approach relies on standard causal inference assumptions (no unmeasured confounding once graph is specified) and domain knowledge of aerosol-cloud-radiation processes.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The causal graph encodes all relevant physical relationships between biomass burning aerosols, meteorology, clouds, and radiation.
    Invoked to justify blocking paths for identification; stated implicitly by the proposal of a 'physically informed statistical approach based on causal graphs'.

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