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Research article
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22 May 2015
Research article |
| 22 May 2015
Precipitation effects of giant cloud condensation nuclei artificially introduced into stratocumulus clouds
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
B. A. Albrecht
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
H. H. Jonsson
Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
Y.-C. Chen
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
J. H. Seinfeld
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
A. Sorooshian
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
A. R. Metcalf
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
now at: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, California, USA
S. Song
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
M. Fang
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
L. M. Russell
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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To study the effect of giant cloud condensation nuclei (GCCN) on precipitation processes in stratocumulus clouds, 1-10 µm diameter salt particles were released from an aircraft while flying near the cloud top off the central coast of California. The analyses suggest that GCCN result in a four-fold increase in the cloud base rainfall rate and depletion of the cloud water due to rainout.
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