Modelling the relationship between liquid water content and cloud droplet number concentration observed in low clouds in the summer Arctic and its radiative effects

Dionne, Joelle; von Salzen, Knut; Cole, Jason; Mahmood, Rashed; Leaitch, W. Richard; Lesins, Glen; Folkins, Ian; Chang, Rachel Y.-W.

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Modelling the relationship between liquid water content and cloud droplet number concentration observed in low clouds in the summer Arctic and its radiative effects

Joelle Dionne, Knut von Salzen, Jason Cole, Rashed Mahmood, W. Richard Leaitch, Glen Lesins, Ian Folkins, and Rachel Y.-W. Chang

Joelle Dionne

Physics and Atmospheric Science Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Knut von Salzen

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2991-6181

Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada

School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Jason Cole

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0450-2748

Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada

Rashed Mahmood

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-2232

School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

now at: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

W. Richard Leaitch

Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada

Glen Lesins

Physics and Atmospheric Science Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Ian Folkins

Physics and Atmospheric Science Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Rachel Y.-W. Chang

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

rachel.chang@dal.ca

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2337-098X

Physics and Atmospheric Science Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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Low clouds persist in the summer Arctic, with important consequences for the radiation budget. We found that the ability of precipitation parameterizations to reproduce observed cloud properties was more variable than their ability to represent radiative effects. Our results show that cloud properties and their parameterizations affect the radiative effects of clouds.

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