Effects of 20-100nm particles on liquid clouds in the clean summertime Arctic

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Autoren
  • W Richard Leaitch
  • Alexei Korolev
  • Amir A Aliabadi
  • Julia Burkart
  • Megan D Willis
  • Jonathan PD Abbatt
  • Heiko Bozem
  • Peter Hoor
  • Franziska Koellnr
  • Johannes Schneider
  • Andreas Herber
  • Christian Konrad
  • Ralf Brauner
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DOI
10.5194/acp-16-11107-2016
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1680-7324
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ISSN
1680-7316
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
17
Zeitschrift
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Paginierung
11107 - 11124
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2016
Status
Published
Titel
Effects of 20-100nm particles on liquid clouds in the clean summertime Arctic
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  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
16

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Abstract
<jats:p>Abstract. Observations addressing effects of aerosol particles on summertime Arctic clouds are limited. An airborne study, carried out during July 2014 from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, as part of the Canadian NETCARE project, provides a comprehensive in situ look into some effects of aerosol particles on liquid clouds in the clean environment of the Arctic summer. Median cloud droplet number concentrations (CDNC) from 62 cloud samples are 10 cm−3 for low-altitude cloud (clouds topped below 200 m) and 101 cm−3 for higher-altitude cloud (clouds based above 200 m). The lower activation size of aerosol particles is  ≤  50 nm diameter in about 40 % of the cases. Particles as small as 20 nm activated in the higher-altitude clouds consistent with higher supersaturations (S) for those clouds inferred from comparison of the CDNC with cloud condensation nucleus (CCN) measurements. Over 60 % of the low-altitude cloud samples fall into the CCN-limited regime of Mauritsen et al. (2011), within which increases in CDNC may increase liquid water and warm the surface. These first observations of that CCN-limited regime indicate a positive association of the liquid water content (LWC) and CDNC, but no association of either the CDNC or LWC with aerosol variations. Above the Mauritsen limit, where aerosol indirect cooling may result, changes in particles with diameters from 20 to 100 nm exert a relatively strong influence on the CDNC. Within this exceedingly clean environment, as defined by low carbon monoxide and low concentrations of larger particles, the background CDNC are estimated to range between 16 and 160 cm−3, where higher values are due to activation of particles  ≤  50 nm that likely derive from natural sources. These observations offer the first wide-ranging reference for the aerosol cloud albedo effect in the summertime Arctic. </jats:p>
Autoren
  • W Richard Leaitch
  • Alexei Korolev
  • Amir A Aliabadi
  • Julia Burkart
  • Megan D Willis
  • Jonathan PD Abbatt
  • Heiko Bozem
  • Peter Hoor
  • Franziska Köllner
  • Johannes Schneider
  • Andreas Herber
  • Christian Konrad
  • Ralf Brauner
DOI
10.5194/acp-16-11107-2016
eISSN
1680-7324
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
17
Zeitschrift
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Sprache
en
Online publication date
2016
Paginierung
11107 - 11124
Status
Published online
Herausgeber
Copernicus GmbH
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11107-2016
Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
Effects of 20–100 nm particles on liquid clouds in the clean summertime Arctic
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
16

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