Detection and attribution of aerosol–cloud interactions in large-domain large-eddy simulations with the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic model

Costa-Surós, Montserrat; Sourdeval, Odran; Acquistapace, Claudia; Baars, Holger; Carbajal Henken, Cintia; Genz, Christa; Hesemann, Jonas; Jimenez, Cristofer; König, Marcel; Kretzschmar, Jan; Madenach, Nils; Meyer, Catrin I.; Schrödner, Roland; Seifert, Patric; Senf, Fabian; Brueck, Matthias; Cioni, Guido; Engels, Jan Frederik; Fieg, Kerstin; Gorges, Ksenia; Heinze, Rieke; Siligam, Pavan Kumar; Burkhardt, Ulrike; Crewell, Susanne; Hoose, Corinna; Seifert, Axel; Tegen, Ina; Quaas, Johannes

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-5657-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-5657-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-5657-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 9

Research article

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13 May 2020

Research article |

| 13 May 2020

Detection and attribution of aerosol–cloud interactions in large-domain large-eddy simulations with the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic model

Montserrat Costa-Surós, Odran Sourdeval, Claudia Acquistapace, Holger Baars, Cintia Carbajal Henken, Christa Genz, Jonas Hesemann, Cristofer Jimenez, Marcel König, Jan Kretzschmar, Nils Madenach, Catrin I. Meyer, Roland Schrödner, Patric Seifert, Fabian Senf, Matthias Brueck, Guido Cioni, Jan Frederik Engels, Kerstin Fieg, Ksenia Gorges, Rieke Heinze, Pavan Kumar Siligam, Ulrike Burkhardt, Susanne Crewell, Corinna Hoose, Axel Seifert, Ina Tegen, and Johannes Quaas

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RC1: 'Comment for Costa-Surós 2019', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Responses to anonymous referee 1', Montserrat Costa Surós, 27 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript "acp-2019-850 "', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to anonymous referee 2', Montserrat Costa Surós, 27 Jan 2020

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AR by Montserrat Costa Surós on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Mar 2020) by Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero

Short summary

The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is a key uncertainty in climate change. This study analyses large-domain simulations with a new high-resolution model to investigate the differences in clouds between 1985 and 2013 comparing multiple observational datasets. The differences in aerosol and in cloud droplet concentrations are clearly detectable. For other quantities, the detection and attribution proved difficult, despite a substantial impact on the Earth's energy budget.