Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.3105r&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 20, p. 3105-3108
Physics
186
Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Global Change: Impact Phenomena, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution-Urban And Regional, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles
Scientific paper
Although it has been known that smoke from biomass burning suppresses warm rain processes, it was not known to what extent this occurs. The satellite observations of the Tropical-Rainfall-Measuring-Mission (TRMM), presented here, show that warm rain processes in convective tropical clouds infected by heavy smoke from forest fires are practically shut off. The tops of the smoke-infected clouds must exceed the freezing level, i.e., grow to altitudes colder than about -10°C, for the clouds to start precipitating. In contrast, adjacent tropical clouds in the cleaner air precipitate most of their water before ever freezing. There are indications that rain suppression due to air pollution prevails also in the extra-tropics.
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