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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2601-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2601-2019
Research article
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28 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 28 Feb 2019

Aerosol effects on deep convection: the propagation of aerosol perturbations through convective cloud microphysics

Max Heikenfeld, Bethan White, Laurent Labbouz, and Philip Stier

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Aerosols can affect the evolution of deep convective clouds by controlling the cloud droplet number concentration. We perform a detailed analysis of the pathways of such aerosol perturbations through the cloud microphysics in numerical model simulations. By focussing on individually tracked convective cells, we can reveal consistent changes to individual process rates, such as a lifting of freezing and riming, but also major differences between the three different microphysics schemes used.
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