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Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11381-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11381-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
Research article
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06 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 06 Sep 2022

Below-cloud scavenging of aerosol by rain: a review of numerical modelling approaches and sensitivity simulations with mineral dust in the Met Office's Unified Model

Anthony C. Jones, Adrian Hill, John Hemmings, Pascal Lemaitre, Arnaud Quérel, Claire L. Ryder, and Stephanie Woodward

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As raindrops fall to the ground, they capture aerosol (i.e. below-cloud scavenging or BCS). Many different BCS schemes are available to climate models, and it is unclear what the impact of selecting one scheme over another is. Here, various BCS models are outlined and then applied to mineral dust in climate model simulations. We find that dust concentrations are highly sensitive to the BCS scheme, with dust atmospheric lifetimes ranging from 5 to 44 d.
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