TY - JOUR
T1 - Cloud droplet formation at the base of tropical convective clouds
T2 - Closure between modeling and measurement results of ACRIDICON-CHUVA
AU - Braga, Ramon Campos
AU - Ervens, Barbara
AU - Rosenfeld, Daniel
AU - Andreae, Meinrat O.
AU - Förster, Jan David
AU - Fütterer, Daniel
AU - Hernández Pardo, Lianet
AU - Holanda, Bruna A.
AU - Jurkat-Witschas, Tina
AU - Krüger, Ovid O.
AU - Lauer, Oliver
AU - MacHado, Luiz A.T.
AU - Pöhlker, Christopher
AU - Sauer, Daniel
AU - Voigt, Christiane
AU - Walser, Adrian
AU - Wendisch, Manfred
AU - Pöschl, Ulrich
AU - Pöhlker, Mira L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12/2
Y1 - 2021/12/2
N2 - Aerosol-cloud interactions contribute to the large uncertainties in current estimates of climate forcing. We investigated the effect of aerosol particles on cloud droplet formation by model calculations and aircraft measurements over the Amazon and over the western tropical Atlantic during the ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign in September 2014. On the HALO (High Altitude Long Range Research) research aircraft, cloud droplet number concentrations (Nd) were measured near the base of clean and polluted growing convective cumuli using a cloud combination probe (CCP) and a cloud and aerosol spectrometer (CAS-DPOL). An adiabatic parcel model was used to perform cloud droplet number closure studies for flights in differently polluted air masses. Model input parameters included aerosol size distributions measured with an ultra-high sensitive aerosol spectrometer (UHSAS), in combination with a condensation particle counter (CPC). Updraft velocities (w) were measured with a boom-mounted Rosemount probe. Over the continent, the aerosol size distributions were dominated by accumulation mode particles, and good agreement between measured and modeled Nd values was obtained (deviations g210%) assuming an average hygroscopicity of κg1/40.1, which is consistent with Amazonian biomass burning and secondary organic aerosol. Above the ocean, fair agreement was obtained assuming an average hygroscopicity of κg1/40.2 (deviations g216%) and further improvement was achieved assuming different hygroscopicities for Aitken and accumulation mode particles (κAitCombining double low line0.8, κaccCombining double low line0.2; deviations g210%), which may reflect secondary marine sulfate particles. Our results indicate that Aitken mode particles and their hygroscopicity can be important for droplet formation at low pollution levels and high updraft velocities in tropical convective clouds.
AB - Aerosol-cloud interactions contribute to the large uncertainties in current estimates of climate forcing. We investigated the effect of aerosol particles on cloud droplet formation by model calculations and aircraft measurements over the Amazon and over the western tropical Atlantic during the ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign in September 2014. On the HALO (High Altitude Long Range Research) research aircraft, cloud droplet number concentrations (Nd) were measured near the base of clean and polluted growing convective cumuli using a cloud combination probe (CCP) and a cloud and aerosol spectrometer (CAS-DPOL). An adiabatic parcel model was used to perform cloud droplet number closure studies for flights in differently polluted air masses. Model input parameters included aerosol size distributions measured with an ultra-high sensitive aerosol spectrometer (UHSAS), in combination with a condensation particle counter (CPC). Updraft velocities (w) were measured with a boom-mounted Rosemount probe. Over the continent, the aerosol size distributions were dominated by accumulation mode particles, and good agreement between measured and modeled Nd values was obtained (deviations g210%) assuming an average hygroscopicity of κg1/40.1, which is consistent with Amazonian biomass burning and secondary organic aerosol. Above the ocean, fair agreement was obtained assuming an average hygroscopicity of κg1/40.2 (deviations g216%) and further improvement was achieved assuming different hygroscopicities for Aitken and accumulation mode particles (κAitCombining double low line0.8, κaccCombining double low line0.2; deviations g210%), which may reflect secondary marine sulfate particles. Our results indicate that Aitken mode particles and their hygroscopicity can be important for droplet formation at low pollution levels and high updraft velocities in tropical convective clouds.
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U2 - 10.5194/acp-21-17513-2021
DO - 10.5194/acp-21-17513-2021
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AN - SCOPUS:85121029981
SN - 1680-7316
VL - 21
SP - 17513
EP - 17528
JO - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
JF - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
IS - 23
ER -