Urbanization-induced land and aerosol impacts on sea-breeze circulation and convective precipitation

Fan, Jiwen; Zhang, Yuwei; Li, Zhanqing; Hu, Jiaxi; Rosenfeld, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14163-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14163-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14163-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 22

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23 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 23 Nov 2020

Urbanization-induced land and aerosol impacts on sea-breeze circulation and convective precipitation

Jiwen Fan, Yuwei Zhang, Zhanqing Li, Jiaxi Hu, and Daniel Rosenfeld

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RC1: 'Review Fan et al 2020', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Yuwei Zhang, 20 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of Fan et al. (Urbanization-induced land and aerosol impacts on sea breeze circulation and convective precipitation)', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Yuwei Zhang, 20 Aug 2020

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ED: Publish as is (24 Sep 2020) by Fangqun Yu

Short summary

We investigate the urbanization-induced land and aerosol impacts on convective clouds and precipitation over Houston. We find that Houston urbanization notably enhances storm intensity and precipitation, with the anthropogenic aerosol effect more significant. Urban land effect strengthens sea-breeze circulation, leading to a faster development of warm cloud into mixed-phase cloud and earlier rain. The anthropogenic aerosol effect accelerates the development of storms into deep convection.