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A survey of radiative and physical properties of North Atlantic mesoscale cloud morphologies from multiple identification methodologies
Ryan Eastman
Isabel L. McCoy
Hauke Schulz
Robert Wood
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Whether increased aerosol increases or decreases liquid cloud mass has been a longstanding question. Observed correlations suggest that aerosols thin liquid cloud, but we are able to show that observations were consistent with an increase in liquid cloud in response to aerosols by leveraging a model where causality could be traced.
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