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Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5439-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5439-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
Research article
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08 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 08 Apr 2021

The temperature dependence of ice-nucleating particle concentrations affects the radiative properties of tropical convective cloud systems

Rachel E. Hawker, Annette K. Miltenberger, Jonathan M. Wilkinson, Adrian A. Hill, Ben J. Shipway, Zhiqiang Cui, Richard J. Cotton, Ken S. Carslaw, Paul R. Field, and Benjamin J. Murray

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The impact of aerosols on clouds is a large source of uncertainty for future climate projections. Our results show that the radiative properties of a complex convective cloud field in the Saharan outflow region are sensitive to the temperature dependence of ice-nucleating particle concentrations. This means that differences in the aerosol source or composition, for the same aerosol size distribution, can cause differences in the outgoing radiation from regions dominated by tropical convection.
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