Articles | Volume 21, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14079-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14079-2021
Research article
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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, Daniel Rosenfeld, Ovid O. Krüger, Barbara Ervens, Bruna A. Holanda, Manfred Wendisch, Trismono Krisna, Ulrich Pöschl, Meinrat O. Andreae, Christiane Voigt, and Mira L. Pöhlker

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Mission: ACRIDICONCHUVA Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt https://halo-db.pa.op.dlr.de/mission/5

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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.
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