Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17475-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17475-2018
Research article
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11 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 11 Dec 2018

The efficacy of aerosol–cloud radiative perturbations from near-surface emissions in deep open-cell stratocumuli

Anna Possner, Hailong Wang, Robert Wood, Ken Caldeira, and Thomas P. Ackerman

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We quantify aerosol–cloud radiative interactions in a regime of deep open-cell stratocumuli (boundary layer depth 1.5 km), a regime which remains largely unexplored within this context and yet is more dominant than cases of shallow stratocumuli previously studied. We simulate substantial increases in albedo in a regime where ship tracks are not found and argue that such changes may escape detection and attribution through remote sensing due to the large natural variability in the system.
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