Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1919-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1919-2024
Research article
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13 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 13 Feb 2024

Effects of intermittent aerosol forcing on the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition

Prasanth Prabhakaran, Fabian Hoffmann, and Graham Feingold

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Index of/groups/csl9/datasets/data/cloud_phys/2023-Prabhakaran-etal Prasanth Prabhakaran https://csl.noaa.gov/groups/csl9/datasets/data/cloud_phys/2023-Prabhakaran-etal/

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SAM Marat Khairoutdinov https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/climatemodeling/SAM

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In this study, we explore the impact of deliberate aerosol perturbation in the northeast Pacific region using large-eddy simulations. Our results show that cloud reflectivity is sensitive to the aerosol sprayer arrangement in the pristine system, whereas in the polluted system it is largely proportional to the total number of aerosol particles injected. These insights would aid in assessing the efficiency of various aerosol injection strategies for climate intervention applications.
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