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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12145-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12145-2017
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12 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 12 Oct 2017

Uncertainty from the choice of microphysics scheme in convection-permitting models significantly exceeds aerosol effects

Bethan White, Edward Gryspeerdt, Philip Stier, Hugh Morrison, Gregory Thompson, and Zak Kipling

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Aerosols influence cloud and precipitation by modifying cloud droplet number concentrations (CDNCs). We simulate three different types of convective cloud using two different cloud microphysics parameterisations. The simulated cloud and precipitation depends much more strongly on the choice of microphysics scheme than on CDNC. The uncertainty differs between types of convection. Our results highlight a large uncertainty in cloud and precipitation responses to aerosol in current models.
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