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19 Nov 2025
Research article |
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Aircraft in-situ measurements from SOCRATES constrain the anthropogenic perturbations of cloud droplet number
Ci Song
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Daniel T. McCoy
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Isabel L. McCoy
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Hunter Brown
Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Andrew Gettelman
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Trude Eidhammer
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Donifan Barahona
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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The study using the NASA Earth system model shows ~2.6 % increase in burning season gross primary production and ~1.5 % increase in annual net primary production across the Amazon Basin during 2010–2016 due to the change in surface downward direct and diffuse photosynthetically active radiation by biomass burning aerosols. Such an aerosol effect is strongly dependent on the presence of clouds. The cloud fraction at which aerosols switch from stimulating to inhibiting plant growth occurs at ~0.8.
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This study examines how aerosols from human activities alter cloud microphysical properties. Airborne observations from a field campaign are used to constrain an ensemble of global model configurations and their associated cloud property changes. Results show that airborne in-situ measurements of aerosol and cloud properties do provide insight into global changes in cloud microphysics but are sensitive to uncertainties in both airborne measurements and Earth system model emulators.
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