Weakening of tropical sea breeze convective systems through interactions of aerosol, radiation, and soil moisture

Park, J. Minnie; van den Heever, Susan C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10527-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10527-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10527-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 16

Research article

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19 Aug 2022

Research article |

| 19 Aug 2022

Weakening of tropical sea breeze convective systems through interactions of aerosol, radiation, and soil moisture

J. Minnie Park and Susan C. van den Heever

Data sets

Data associated with "Environmental controls on tropical sea breeze convection and resulting aerosol redistribution" J. M. Park, S. C. van den Heever, A. L. Igel, L. D. Grant, J. S. Johnson, S. M. Saleeby, S. D. Miller, and J. S. Reid https://doi.org/10.25675/10217/199723

Short summary

This study explores how increased aerosol particles impact tropical sea breeze cloud systems under different environments and how a range of environments modulate these cloud responses. Overall, sea breeze flows and clouds that develop therein become weaker due to interactions between aerosols, sunlight, and land surface. In addition, surface rainfall also decreases with more aerosol particles. Weakening of cloud and rain with more aerosols is found irrespective of 130 different environments.