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Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7435-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7435-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Research article
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20 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2017

Time-dependent, non-monotonic response of warm convective cloud fields to changes in aerosol loading

Guy Dagan, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, and Reuven H. Heiblum

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Large eddy simulations with bin microphysics are used to study cloud fields' sensitivity to changes in aerosol loading and the time evolution of this response. We show that the mean field properties change with a non-monotonic trend, with an optimum aerosol concentration for which the field reaches its maximal water mass or rain yield. The evolution of the mean thermodynamic properties is studied and shown to cause the migration of the optimal aerosol concentration toward higher values.
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