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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7789-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-7789-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Regional variability of aerosol impacts on clouds and radiation in global kilometer-scale simulations
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
now at: Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Andrew I. L. Williams
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
now at: Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Philipp Weiss
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Duncan Watson-Parris
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
now at: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
now at: Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Elisabeth Dingley
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
now at: CMIP International Project Office, ECSAT, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
Daniel Klocke
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Philip Stier
Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
Clouds exist at scales that climate models struggle to represent, limiting our knowledge of how climate change may impact clouds. Here we use a new kilometer-scale global model representing an important step towards the necessary scale. We focus on how aerosol particles modify clouds, radiation, and precipitation. We find the magnitude and manner of responses tend to vary from region to region, highlighting the potential of global kilometer-scale simulations and a need to represent aerosols in climate models.
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