Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia

  • Ke Ding,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Aijun Ding,
  • Minghuai Wang,
  • Hang Su,
  • Veli-Matti Kerminen,
  • Tuukka Petäjä,
  • Zhemin Tan,
  • Zilin Wang,
  • Derong Zhou,
  • Jianning Sun,
  • Hong Liao,
  • Huijun Wang,
  • Ken Carslaw,
  • Robert Wood,
  • Paquita Zuidema,
  • Daniel Rosenfeld,
  • Markku Kulmala,
  • Congbin Fu,
  • Ulrich Pöschl,
  • Yafang Cheng,
  • Meinrat O. Andreae

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26728-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Biomass burning emissions have been shown to influence clouds in the Atlantic, but its influence in other regions is not well known. Here, the authors show that biomass burning aerosols increase the low-cloud cover over subtropical southeastern Asia by a similar magnitude than over the Atlantic.