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The natural environment is a major source of atmospheric aerosols, including dust, secondaryorganic material from terrestrial biogenic emissions, carbonaceous particles from wildfires,and sulphate from marine phytoplankton dimethyl sulphide emissions. These aerosols also havea significant effect on many components of the Earth system such as the atmosphericradiative balance and photosynthetically available radiation entering the biosphere, thesupply of nutrients to the ocean, and the albedo of snow and ice. The physical andbiological systems that produce these aerosols can be highly susceptible to modification dueto climate change so there is the potential for important climate feedbacks. We review theimpact of these natural systems on atmospheric aerosol based on observations and models,including the potential for long term changes in emissions and the feedbacks on climate. Thenumber of drivers of change is very large and the various systems are stronglycoupled. There have therefore been very few studies that integrate the various effects toestimate climate feedback factors. Nevertheless, available observations and model studiessuggest that the regional radiative perturbations are potentially several Watts per square metredue to changes in these natural aerosol emissions in a future climate. Taking into account onlythe direct radiative effect of changes in the atmospheric burden of natural aerosols, and neglectingpotentially large effects on other parts of the Earth system, a global mean radiative perturbationapproaching 1 W m<sup>−2</sup> is possible by the end of the century.  The level ofscientific understanding of the climate drivers, interactions and impacts is very low

A review of natural aerosol interactions and feedbacks within the Earth system