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The impact of aerosol-ice nuclei-cloud interactions on a typical spring dust-precipitation event in China
Jian Zhang
Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology & Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Chunhong Zhou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology & Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Xiaoyu Shen
Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology & Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Key Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Hong Wang
Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology & Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Sunling Gong
Institute of Atmospheric Composition and Environmental Meteorology & Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
National Observation and Research Station of Coastal Ecological Environments in Macao, Macao Environmental Research Institute, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China
Research Institute for Pollution and Carbon Mitigation Assessment, Tianfu Yongxing Laboratory, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Xiaoye Zhang
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Laboratory of Climate Change Mitigation and Carbon Neutrality, Henan University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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To investigate the impact of ice nuclei (IN) activated by dust aerosols on precipitation over China, a new mechanism for online aerosol activation of IN has been embedded in the Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System-China Meteorological Administration Unified Atmospheric Chemistry Environment, which is used to examine the effects of these processes during a typical dust-affected precipitation event in East Asia.
To investigate the impact of ice nuclei (IN) activated by dust aerosols on precipitation over...
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