Effect of precipitation on water cloud properties over China

Details Effect of precipitation on water cloud properties over China Effect of precipitation on water cloud properties over China

Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3520811k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 20, CiteID L20811

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Biogeosciences: Remote Sensing

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I compared the amount of precipitation P and non-precipitation water cloud properties (effective radius r e and columnar number density N c of droplets) over China in the mid-latitude frontal zone. In general, N c decreased and r e increased as P increased. The rates of variation also became less steep beyond a certain P for both parameters, suggesting saturation. These relationships could be interpreted as due to the effect of scavenging of aerosols via precipitation on the cloud properties. The observed cloud properties of fewer cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in the rain-rich regions and of more CCN in the rain-poor regions support a previously proposed mechanism. Comparison with an Amazon case in the convective zone revealed some similarities and differences in the characteristics of the obtained relationships.

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