Observing the timescales of aerosol–cloud  interactions in snapshot satellite images

Gryspeerdt, Edward; Goren, Tom; Smith, Tristan W. P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6093-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6093-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6093-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 8

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26 Apr 2021

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Observing the timescales of aerosol–cloud interactions in snapshot satellite images

Edward Gryspeerdt, Tom Goren, and Tristan W. P. Smith

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RC1: 'Review of Observing the timescales of aerosol-cloud interactions in snapshot satellite images', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Oct 2020
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Cloud responses to aerosol are time-sensitive, but this development is rarely observed. This study uses isolated aerosol perturbations from ships to measure this development and shows that macrophysical (width, cloud fraction, detectability) and microphysical (droplet number) properties of ship tracks vary strongly with time since emission, background cloud and meteorological state. This temporal development should be considered when constraining aerosol–cloud interactions with observations.