Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3029-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3029-2020
Research article
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13 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2020

Biomass burning aerosol as a modulator of the droplet number in the southeast Atlantic region

Mary Kacarab, K. Lee Thornhill, Amie Dobracki, Steven G. Howell, Joseph R. O'Brien, Steffen Freitag, Michael R. Poellot, Robert Wood, Paquita Zuidema, Jens Redemann, and Athanasios Nenes

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We find that extensive biomass burning aerosol plumes from southern Africa can profoundly influence clouds in the southeastern Atlantic. Concurrent variations in vertical velocity, however, are found to magnify the relationship between boundary layer aerosol and the cloud droplet number. Neglecting these covariances may strongly bias the sign and magnitude of aerosol impacts on the cloud droplet number.
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