Exploring aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid-phase clouds over eastern China and its adjacent ocean using the WRF-Chem–SBM model

Zhao, Jianqi; Ma, Xiaoyan; Quaas, Johannes; Jia, Hailing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9101-2024

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22 Aug 2024

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| 22 Aug 2024

Exploring aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid-phase clouds over eastern China and its adjacent ocean using the WRF-Chem–SBM model

Jianqi Zhao, Xiaoyan Ma, Johannes Quaas, and Hailing Jia

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RC1:
'Comment on egusphere-2023-2858', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Dec 2023

My review comments are included in the PDF file.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2858-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Jianqi Zhao, 22 Apr 2024
  
  Please see the response in Supplement
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2858-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on egusphere-2023-2858', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Mar 2024

My comments are attached.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2858-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Jianqi Zhao, 22 Apr 2024
  
  Please see the response in Supplement
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2858-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Jianqi Zhao on behalf of the Authors (22 Apr 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 May 2024) by Xiaohong Liu

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 May 2024)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

Review of “Exploring aerosol-cloud interactions in liquid-phase clouds over eastern China and its adjacent ocean using the WRF-Chem-SBM model” by Zhao et al., submitted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)
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Recommendation: Minor revisions (technical corrections)

Overall, the authors have done great work to address the problems in the presentation that I identified in the previous review. The responses and actions to my second and third major concerns in my general assessment comment in the previous review are not excellent, but acceptable. At this stage of the review, I suggest minor revisions for the revised manuscript. Once the issues listed below have been addressed, I believe the manuscript can be accepted for publication in ACP.

Table 1. The parameterization for the shortwave radiation was changed from CAM to Goddard in the revision. But the citation is still Zhong et al. (2016) for CAM. Please correct the citation.
Fig. 8. Why are the Chloride, Sodium, and Primary Organics portions separated from the main body of the pie chart?
Line 141: “CUP” => “CPU”
Line 275: “hinder” => “hinders”
Line 359. “temperature and water vapor changes at that time compared to the last time (the model outputs once per hour, the changes are the values of the current time minus the previous hour)” If my understanding is correct, this should simply be described as “changes in temperature and water vapor per hour”.

Below are some of my remaining concerns with the revised manuscript. Although the authors do not need to address these, I leave this for possible open discussion.
The authors now clearly describe how to calculate averaged supersaturation, where unsaturated grid points are included as a value of 0 for the average. The definition is fine, but I am not fully convinced that the interpretation of the results in the manuscript is correct, although the interpretation does not affect the conclusions so much.
In parts of Sections 3.3 and 3.4 on statistical analysis, I feel that the discussion of the causality between each parameter is still not well organized, the interpretation may be misleading, and some conclusions are not fully supported. However, the results presented using the state-of-the-art model are valuable to the community.

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 May 2024) by Xiaohong Liu

AR by Jianqi Zhao on behalf of the Authors (14 May 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Jun 2024) by Xiaohong Liu

AR by Jianqi Zhao on behalf of the Authors (17 Jun 2024) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Jun 2024) by Xiaohong Liu

AR by Jianqi Zhao on behalf of the Authors (27 Jun 2024) Manuscript

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Short summary

We explore aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid-phase clouds over eastern China and its adjacent ocean in winter based on the WRF-Chem–SBM model, which couples a spectral-bin microphysics scheme and an online aerosol module. Our study highlights the differences in aerosol–cloud interactions between land and ocean and between precipitation clouds and non-precipitation clouds, and it differentiates and quantifies their underlying mechanisms.