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Articles | Volume 20, issue 22
Articles | Volume 20, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14163-2020
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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
Research article
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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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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.
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