Articles | Volume 22, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8457-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8457-2022
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04 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 04 Jul 2022

Impact of Holuhraun volcano aerosols on clouds in cloud-system-resolving simulations

Mahnoosh Haghighatnasab, Jan Kretzschmar, Karoline Block, and Johannes Quaas

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The impact of aerosols emitted by the Holuhraun volcanic eruption on liquid clouds was assessed from a pair of cloud-system-resolving simulations along with satellite retrievals. Inside and outside the plume were compared in terms of their statistical distributions. Analyses indicated enhancement for cloud droplet number concentration inside the volcano plume in model simulations and satellite retrievals, while there was on average a small effect on both liquid water path and cloud fraction.
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