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13 Jul 2015
Research article |
| 13 Jul 2015
Wet scavenging limits the detection of aerosol effects on precipitation
E. Gryspeerdt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
B. A. White
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Z. Kipling
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
Wet scavenging generates differences between the aerosol properties in clear-sky scenes (observed by satellites) and cloudy scenes, leading to different
aerosol-precipitation relationships in satellite data and global models. Convective systems usually draw in air from clear-sky regions, but global models have difficulty separating this aerosol from the aerosol in cloudy scenes within a model gridbox. This may prevent models from reproducing the observed aerosol-precipitation relationships.
Wet scavenging generates differences between the aerosol properties in clear-sky scenes...
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