Real-case simulations of aerosol–cloud interactions in ship tracks over the Bay of Biscay

Possner, A.; Zubler, E.; Lohmann, U.; Schär, C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2185-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2185-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2185-2015

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

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

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27 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 27 Feb 2015

Real-case simulations of aerosol–cloud interactions in ship tracks over the Bay of Biscay

A. Possner, E. Zubler, U. Lohmann, and C. Schär

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Feb 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 24 Oct 2014)

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

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RC C9334: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Nov 2014
RC C9677: 'Referee Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Nov 2014
AC C10385: 'general comment of authors and response to reviewer's comments', Anna Possner, 19 Dec 2014

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

AR by Anna Possner on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (23 Dec 2014) by Johannes Quaas

AR by Anna Possner on behalf of the Authors (21 Jan 2015) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Jan 2015) by Johannes Quaas

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (31 Jan 2015)

ED: Publish as is (31 Jan 2015) by Johannes Quaas

AR by Anna Possner on behalf of the Authors (02 Feb 2015)

Short summary

For the first time, real-case simulations of ship tracks are performed at the 2km scale and evaluated against observations. Simulations show that ship tracks are quantitatively and qualitatively captured by the model. Therefore, this approach could be used to evaluate the interplay between parameterisations for aerosol–cloud interactions which occur, in the case of ship tracks, in spatially defined regions and under constrained environmental conditions.