Putting the clouds back in aerosol–cloud interactions

Gettelman, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-12397-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-12397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-12397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 21

Research article

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09 Nov 2015

Research article |

| 09 Nov 2015

Putting the clouds back in aerosol–cloud interactions

A. Gettelman

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Final revised paper (published on 09 Nov 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 03 Aug 2015)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C5678: 'Review', Steven Ghan, 05 Aug 2015
- AC C8411: 'Reply to Reviewer', Andrew Gettelman, 23 Oct 2015
RC C6569: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Sep 2015
- AC C8418: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', Andrew Gettelman, 23 Oct 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Andrew Gettelman on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (27 Oct 2015) by Corinna Hoose

AR by Andrew Gettelman on behalf of the Authors (28 Oct 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Aerosols affect cloud properties, and the radiative effects of clouds. Human emissions of aerosol particles and precursors may alter the radiative effects of clouds. This is generally a cooling effect that offsets other warming effects of human emissions of gases. Simulating these aerosol effects on clouds are highly dependent on the formulation of the microphysical (cloud droplet scale) processes. This work uses model simulations to show these effects are large, and depend on certain processes.