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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13771-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13771-2020
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16 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 16 Nov 2020

Snow-induced buffering in aerosol–cloud interactions

Takuro Michibata, Kentaroh Suzuki, and Toshihiko Takemura

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This work reveals that prognostic precipitation significantly reduces the magnitude of aerosol–cloud interactions (ERFaci), mainly due to the collection process associated with snowflakes and underlying cloud droplets. This precipitation-driven buffering effect, which is missing in traditional GCMs, can explain the model–observation discrepancy in ERFaci. These results underscore the necessity for a prognostic precipitation framework in GCMs for more reliable climate simulations.
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