Articles | Volume 21, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14079-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14079-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
22 Sep 2021
Research article |
| 22 Sep 2021
Linear relationship between effective radius and precipitation water content near the top of convective clouds: measurement results from ACRIDICON–CHUVA campaign
Ramon Campos Braga
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Daniel Rosenfeld
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel
Ovid O. Krüger
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Barbara Ervens
Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Bruna A. Holanda
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Manfred Wendisch
Leipziger Institut für Meteorologie (LIM), Universität Leipzig, Stephanstr. 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Trismono Krisna
Leipziger Institut für Meteorologie (LIM), Universität Leipzig, Stephanstr. 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Meinrat O. Andreae
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Department of Geology and Geophysics, King Saud University, 11457 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Christiane Voigt
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Mira L. Pöhlker
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
now at: Department of Experimental Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Data sets
Mission: ACRIDICONCHUVA Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/5
Short summary
Quantifying the precipitation within clouds is crucial for our understanding of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Using in situ measurements of cloud and rain properties over the Amazon Basin and Atlantic Ocean, we show here a linear relationship between the effective radius (re) and precipitation water content near the tops of convective clouds for different pollution states and temperature levels. Our results emphasize the role of re to determine both initiation and amount of precipitation.
Quantifying the precipitation within clouds is crucial for our understanding of the Earth's...
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