Impact of biomass burning aerosols on radiation, clouds, and precipitation over the Amazon: relative importance of aerosol–cloud and aerosol–radiation interactions

Liu, Lixia; Cheng, Yafang; Wang, Siwen; Wei, Chao; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Pöhlker, Christopher; Artaxo, Paulo; Shrivastava, Manish; Andreae, Meinrat O.; Pöschl, Ulrich; Su, Hang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13283-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13283-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13283-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 21

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10 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 10 Nov 2020

Impact of biomass burning aerosols on radiation, clouds, and precipitation over the Amazon: relative importance of aerosol–cloud and aerosol–radiation interactions

Lixia Liu, Yafang Cheng, Siwen Wang, Chao Wei, Mira L. Pöhlker, Christopher Pöhlker, Paulo Artaxo, Manish Shrivastava, Meinrat O. Andreae, Ulrich Pöschl, and Hang Su

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RC1: 'Review of acp-2020-191', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Comments of Referee#1', Lixia Liu, 05 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of “Impact of biomass burning aerosols on radiation, clouds, and precipitation over the Amazon during the dry season: dependence of aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation interactions on aerosol loading” authored by Liu et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 May 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Comments of Referee#2', Lixia Liu, 05 Aug 2020

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This modeling paper reveals how aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) and aerosol–radiation interactions (ARIs) induced by biomass burning (BB) aerosols act oppositely on radiation, cloud, and precipitation in the Amazon during the dry season. The varying relative significance of ACIs and ARIs with BB aerosol concentration leads to a nonlinear dependence of the total climate response on BB aerosol loading and features the growing importance of ARIs at high aerosol loading.