A long-term study of aerosol–cloud interactions and their radiative effect
at the Southern Great Plains using ground-based measurements

Sena, Elisa T.; McComiskey, Allison; Feingold, Graham

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11301-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11301-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11301-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 17

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13 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 13 Sep 2016

A long-term study of aerosol–cloud interactions and their radiative effect at the Southern Great Plains using ground-based measurements

Elisa T. Sena, Allison McComiskey, and Graham Feingold

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 May 2016
- AC1: 'Responses to reviewer #1', Elisa Sena, 23 Aug 2016
RC2: 'What is wrong with Eq. 8 and 9?', Johannes Quaas, 25 May 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer #2', Elisa Sena, 23 Aug 2016

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AR by Elisa Sena on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2016)

ED: Publish as is (25 Aug 2016) by Jianping Huang

AR by Elisa Sena on behalf of the Authors (26 Aug 2016)

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A new method for assessing aerosol effects on clouds is proposed. For the first time, 14 years of collocated, coincident ground-based observations have been used to study cloud–aerosol–meteorology–radiation interactions in the USA. For this site, the results indicate that the influence of the aerosol on cloud radiative effect and cloud albedo is weak, and that macroscopic cloud properties play a much larger role in determining the cloud radiative effect compared to aerosol effects.