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DOI	10.5194/acp-20-3483-2020
	Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions under different absorptive aerosol regimes using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) southern Great Plains (SGP) ground-based measurements
	Zheng X.; Xi B.; Dong X.; Logan T.; Wang Y.; Wu P.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1680-7316
起始页码	3483
结束页码	3501
卷号	20 期号:6
英文摘要	The aerosol indirect effect on cloud microphysical and radiative properties is one of the largest uncertainties in climate simulations. In order to investigate the aerosol-cloud interactions, a total of 16 low-level stratus cloud cases under daytime coupled boundary-layer conditions are selected over the southern Great Plains (SGP) region of the United States. The physicochemical properties of aerosols and their impacts on cloud microphysical properties are examined using data collected from the Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility at the SGP site. The aerosol-cloud interaction index (ACIr) is used to quantify the aerosol impacts with respect to cloud-droplet effective radius. The mean value of ACIr calculated from all selected samples is 0.145±0.05 and ranges from 0.09 to 0.24 at a range of cloud liquid water paths (LWPs; LWPCombining double low line20-300 g m-2). The magnitude of ACIr decreases with an increasing LWP, which suggests a diminished cloud microphysical response to aerosol loading, presumably due to enhanced condensational growth processes and enlarged particle sizes. The impact of aerosols with different light-absorbing abilities on the sensitivity of cloud microphysical responses is also investigated. In the presence of weak light-absorbing aerosols, the low-level clouds feature a higher number concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (NCCN) and smaller effective radii (re), while the opposite is true for strong light-absorbing aerosols. Furthermore, the mean activation ratio of aerosols to CCN (NCCNĝˆ•Na) for weakly (strongly) absorbing aerosols is 0.54 (0.45), owing to the aerosol microphysical effects, particularly the different aerosol compositions inferred by their absorptive properties. In terms of the sensitivity of cloud-droplet number concentration (Nd) to NCCN, the fraction of CCN that converted to cloud droplets (Ndĝˆ•NCCN) for the weakly (strongly) absorptive regime is 0.69 (0.54). The measured ACIr values in the weakly absorptive regime are relatively higher, indicating that clouds have greater microphysical responses to aerosols, owing to the favorable thermodynamic condition. The reduced ACIr values in the strongly absorptive regime are due to the cloud-layer heating effect induced by strong light-absorbing aerosols. Consequently, we expect larger shortwave radiative cooling effects from clouds in the weakly absorptive regime than those in the strongly absorptive regime.. © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	absorption; aerosol; aerosol composition; climate modeling; computer simulation; ground-based measurement; radiative forcing; radiative transfer; Great Plains
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/141460
作者单位	Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas AandM University, College Station, TX, United States; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zheng X.,Xi B.,Dong X.,et al. Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions under different absorptive aerosol regimes using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) southern Great Plains (SGP) ground-based measurements[J],2020,20(6).
APA	Zheng X.,Xi B.,Dong X.,Logan T.,Wang Y.,&Wu P..(2020).Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions under different absorptive aerosol regimes using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) southern Great Plains (SGP) ground-based measurements.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,20(6).
MLA	Zheng X.,et al."Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions under different absorptive aerosol regimes using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) southern Great Plains (SGP) ground-based measurements".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20.6(2020).