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