Examination of aerosol indirect effects during cirrus cloud evolution

Maciel, Flor Vanessa; Diao, Minghui; Patnaude, Ryan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1103-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1103-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1103-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 2

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23 Jan 2023

Research article |

| 23 Jan 2023

Examination of aerosol indirect effects during cirrus cloud evolution

Flor Vanessa Maciel, Minghui Diao, and Ryan Patnaude

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RC1: 'Comment on acp-2022-519', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Sep 2022

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://acp.copernicus.org/preprints/acp-2022-519/acp-2022-519-RC1-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-519-RC1
RC2: 'Comment on acp-2022-519', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Oct 2022

see my review in the attached file.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-519-RC2
AC1: 'Comment on acp-2022-519', Minghui Diao, 22 Dec 2022

We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments. Attached is our response to individual comments from two reviewers, as well as the respective changes to the manuscript.
Please note, per the new policy of ACP manuscript review process, we are not allowed to upload the revised manuscript at this stage of responding to reviewers. Only later when encouraged, we can upload the revised manuscript. We try to be as clear as possible in our response by quoting all the text changes and new figures in the revised manuscript.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-519-AC1

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Minghui Diao on behalf of the Authors (22 Dec 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Dec 2022) by Matthew Lebsock

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Aerosol indirect effects on cirrus clouds are investigated during cirrus evolution, using global-scale in situ observations and climate model simulations. As cirrus evolves, the mechanisms to form ice crystals also change with time. Both small and large aerosols are found to affect cirrus properties. Southern Hemisphere cirrus appears to be more sensitive to additional aerosols. The climate model underestimates ice crystal mass, likely due to biases of relative humidity and vertical velocity.