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04 Jul 2019
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| 04 Jul 2019
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Aerosol influences on low-level clouds in the West African monsoon
Jonathan W. Taylor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Sophie L. Haslett
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
now at: Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm 114 18, Sweden
Keith Bower
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Michael Flynn
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Ian Crawford
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
James Dorsey
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Tom Choularton
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Paul J. Connolly
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Valerian Hahn
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Christiane Voigt
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Daniel Sauer
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Régis Dupuy
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Joel Brito
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
now at: IMT Lille Douai, Université de Lille, SAGE, 59000 Lille, France
Alfons Schwarzenboeck
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Thierry Bourriane
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Cyrielle Denjean
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Phil Rosenberg
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Cyrille Flamant
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
James D. Lee
Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, University of York, York, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, York, UK
Adam R. Vaughan
Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, University of York, York, UK
Peter G. Hill
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Barbara Brooks
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, UK
Valéry Catoire
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Université Orléans-CNRS-CNES, Orléans CEDEX 2, France
Peter Knippertz
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Short summary
Low-level clouds cover a wide area of southern West Africa (SWA) and play an important role in the region's climate, reflecting sunlight away from the surface. We performed aircraft measurements of aerosols and clouds over SWA during the 2016 summer monsoon and found pollution, and polluted clouds, across the whole region. Smoke from biomass burning in Central Africa is transported to West Africa, causing a polluted background which limits the effect of local pollution on cloud properties.
Low-level clouds cover a wide area of southern West Africa (SWA) and play an important role in...
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