Observations of high droplet number concentrations in Southern Ocean  boundary layer clouds

Chubb, T.; Huang, Y.; Jensen, J.; Campos, T.; Siems, S.; Manton, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-971-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-971-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-971-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

Research article

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27 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 27 Jan 2016

Observations of high droplet number concentrations in Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds

T. Chubb, Y. Huang, J. Jensen, T. Campos, S. Siems, and M. Manton

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Jan 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Sep 2015)

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

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RC C8026: 'Reviewer Comment on acp-2015-375', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Oct 2015
- AC C10672: 'Response to comments from Reviewer 1', Thomas Chubb, 21 Dec 2015
RC C8645: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Oct 2015
- AC C10688: 'Response to comments from Reviewer 2', Thomas Chubb, 21 Dec 2015
RC C9055: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 08 Nov 2015
- AC C10702: 'Response to comments from Reviewer 3', Thomas Chubb, 21 Dec 2015

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

AR by Thomas Chubb on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Dec 2015) by Markus Petters

AR by Thomas Chubb on behalf of the Authors (06 Jan 2016)

Short summary

The remote Southern Ocean is known to be one of the most pristine environments on the planet, but we found that cloud droplet and aerosol concentrations during one research flight in June 2009 were higher than expected. We were unable to attribute this to continental aerosol sources, and we hypothesize that strong winds resulted in local aerosol production in the form of sea salt. This has several consequences for climate modelling and cloud physics research.