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Impact of aerosols on convective clouds and precipitation
https://doi.org/10.1029/2011RG000369
| Properties |
High CCNb(Dirty) |
Low CCN (Clean) |
References (Observations) |
| Cloud droplet size and distribution |
smaller and narrower |
larger and broader |
Squires [1958], Radke et al. [1989], Ferek et al. [2000], Rosenfeld and Lensky [1998], Rosenfeld 1999, [2000], Rosenfeld et al. [2001], Rosenfeld and Woodley [2000], Andreae et al. [2004], Koren et al.[2005], Yuan et al. [2008]
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| Warm‐rain process |
suppressed |
enhanced |
Squires [1958], Radke et al. [1989], Albrecht [1989], Rosenfeld 1999, [2000], Rosenfeld and Woodley [2000], Rosenfeld and Ulbrich [2003], Andreae et al. [2004], Lin et al. [2006], Givati and Rosenfeld [2004], Li et al. [2011a]
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| Cold‐rain process |
enhanced |
suppressed |
Rosenfeld and Woodley [2000], Orville et al. [2001], Williams et al.[2002], Andreae et al. [2004], Lin et al. [2006], Bell et al. [2008]
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| Mixed‐phase region |
deeper |
shallower |
Rosenfeld and Lensky [1998], Williams et al. [2002], Andreae et al.[2004], [Koren et al. 2005, 2008, 2010a, 2010b], Lin et al. [2006], Li et al. [2011a], Niu and Li [2011]
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| Lightning |
enhanced (downwind side)/higher maximum flash |
less and lower maximum flash |
Williams et al. [2002], Orville et al. [2001], Steiger et al. [2002], Steiger and Orville [2003], Yuan et al. [2011]
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