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Aerosols enhance cloud lifetime and brightness along the stratus-to-cumulus transition
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Significance: All cloud droplets on Earth form from tiny airborne particles known as aerosols. Additional aerosols from anthropogenic activity have produced more cloud droplets but at smaller sizes. The smaller, more numerous droplets in clouds do not collide as effectively, therefore resulting in less precipitation. Using a combination of time-lapse satellite imagery and air mass trajectory modeling, we show that aerosols can enhance cloud fraction and extend the lifetime of overcast cloud fields primarily under stable atmospheric conditions as typically found off the west coasts of subtropical stratocumulus-dominated regions. Longer-lived clouds have a stronger cooling influence on climate and therefore, need to be correctly parameterized in atmospheric models so that accurate projections of climate change can be achieved.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Christensen, M. W., Jones, W. K., & Stier, P.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2020-07-13
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 30
- Pages
- 17591-17598
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W3042893675
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 45
- FWCI
- 14.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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