Opposing comparable large effects of fine aerosols and coarse sea spray on marine warm clouds

Fan Liu; Feiyue Mao; Daniel Rosenfeld; Zengxin Pan; Lin Zang; Yannian Zhu; Jianhua Yin; Wei Gong

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00562-y

Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)

Opposing comparable large effects of fine aerosols and coarse sea spray on marine warm clouds

Fan Liu,
Feiyue Mao,
Daniel Rosenfeld,
Zengxin Pan,
Lin Zang,
Yannian Zhu,
Jianhua Yin,
Wei Gong

Affiliations

Fan Liu: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
Feiyue Mao: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
Daniel Rosenfeld: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University
Zengxin Pan: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University
Lin Zang: School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University
Yannian Zhu: School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
Jianhua Yin: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
Wei Gong: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00562-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Fine aerosols strongly reduce cloud drop size and suppress rainfall from marine warm clouds, whereas coarse sea spray has an opposite and independent effect of comparable magnitude, according to an analysis of satellite spectrometer and radar observations.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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