Articles | Volume 25, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-9685-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-9685-2025
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03 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 03 Sep 2025

Weak influence of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol, cloud, and rain in the wet season of the Amazon rainforest

Xuemei Wang, Kenneth S. Carslaw, Daniel P. Grosvenor, and Hamish Gordon

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Modelled data Xuemei Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7213371

Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) GoAmazon2014/5 https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2014goamazon

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Anthropogenic emissions can influence aerosol particle number concentrations and cloud formation. Our model simulations predict around a 10 % increase in the particle and cloud droplet number concentrations when doubling the emissions in the Manaus region in the Amazonian wet season. However, the corresponding changes in cloud water and rain mass are around 4 %. Such a weak response implies that this convective environment is not sensitive to the localized anthropogenic emission changes here.
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