Influence of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on cloud base droplet size distributions in clouds over the South China Sea and West Pacific

Miller, Rose Marie; Rauber, Robert M.; Di Girolamo, Larry; Rilloraza, Matthew; Fu, Dongwei; McFarquhar, Greg M.; Nesbitt, Stephen W.; Ziemba, Luke D.; Woods, Sarah; Thornhill, Kenneth Lee

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8959-2023

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11 Aug 2023

Research article |

| 11 Aug 2023

Influence of natural and anthropogenic aerosols on cloud base droplet size distributions in clouds over the South China Sea and West Pacific

Rose Marie Miller, Robert M. Rauber, Larry Di Girolamo, Matthew Rilloraza, Dongwei Fu, Greg M. McFarquhar, Stephen W. Nesbitt, Luke D. Ziemba, Sarah Woods, and Kenneth Lee Thornhill

Data sets

The ERA5 Global Reanalysis (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-complete?tab=form) H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, S. Hirahara, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz-Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, S. Abdalla, X. Abellan, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, G. Biavati, J. Bidlot, M. Bonavita, G. De Chiara, P. Dahlgren, D. Dee, M. Diamantakis, R. Dragani, J. Flemming, R. Forbes, M. Fuentes, A. Geer, L. Haimberger, S. Healy, R. J. Hogan, E. Hólm, M. Janisková, S. Keeley, P. Laloyaux, P. Lopez, C. Lupu, G. Radnoti, P. de Rosnay, I. Rozum, F. Vamborg, S. Villaume, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803

CAMP2EX_PISTON NASA-Langley https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ArcView/camp2ex

Video supplement

Influence of natural and anthropogenic aerosol on cloud base droplet size distributions in clouds over the South China Sea and Western Pacific Rose Marie Miller https://doi.org/10.5446/62465

Short summary

The influence of human-produced aerosols on clouds remains one of the uncertainties in radiative forcing of Earth’s climate. Measurements of aerosol chemistry from sources around the Philippines illustrate the linkage between aerosol chemical composition and cloud droplet characteristics. Differences in aerosol chemical composition in the marine layer from biomass burning, industrial, ship-produced, and marine aerosols are shown to impact cloud microphysical structure just above cloud base.