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Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7557-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7557-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
Research article
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13 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 13 Jul 2015

Wet scavenging limits the detection of aerosol effects on precipitation

E. Gryspeerdt, P. Stier, B. A. White, and Z. Kipling

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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.
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