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DOI	10.5194/acp-20-5093-2020
	The effects of cloud-aerosol interaction complexity on simulations of presummer rainfall over southern China
	Furtado K.; Field P.; Luo Y.; Zhou T.; Hill A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1680-7316
起始页码	5093
结束页码	5110
卷号	20 期号:8
英文摘要	Convection-permitting simulations are used to understand the effects of cloud-aerosol interactions in a case of heavy rainfall over southern China. The simulations are evaluated using radar observations from the Southern China Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (SCMREX) and remotely sensed estimates of precipitation, clouds and radiation. We focus on the effects of complexity in cloud-aerosol interactions, especially the depletion and transport of aerosol material by clouds. In particular, simulations with aerosol concentrations held constant are compared with a fully cloud-aerosol-interacting system to investigate the effects of two-way coupling between aerosols and clouds on a line of organised deep convection. It is shown that the cloud processing of aerosols can change the vertical structure of the storm by using up aerosols within the core of line, thereby maintaining a relatively clean environment which propagates with the heaviest rainfall. This induces changes in the statistics of surface rainfall, with a cleaner environment being associated with less-intense but more-frequent rainfall. These effects are shown to be related to a shortening of the timescale for converting cloud droplets to rain as the aerosol number concentration is decreased. The simulations are compared to satellite-derived estimates of surface rainfall, a condensed-water path and the outgoing flux of short-wave radiation. Simulations for fewer aerosol particles outperform the more polluted simulations for surface rainfall but give poorer representations of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiation. © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	aerosol; atmospheric transport; climate effect; climate forcing; cloud microphysics; complexity; computer simulation; concentration (composition); convective system; numerical model; rainfall; top of atmosphere; China
来源期刊	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/141378
作者单位	Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Furtado K.,Field P.,Luo Y.,et al. The effects of cloud-aerosol interaction complexity on simulations of presummer rainfall over southern China[J],2020,20(8).
APA	Furtado K.,Field P.,Luo Y.,Zhou T.,&Hill A..(2020).The effects of cloud-aerosol interaction complexity on simulations of presummer rainfall over southern China.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,20(8).
MLA	Furtado K.,et al."The effects of cloud-aerosol interaction complexity on simulations of presummer rainfall over southern China".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20.8(2020).