Can aerosol decrease cloud lifetime?

By J. Small, P. Chuang, G. Feingold, Hongli Jiang. 2009

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Aerosol indirect effects in a multi-scale aerosol-climate model PNNL-MMF (2011, background): “…increasing LWP with increasing aerosols (Platnick et al., 2000; Coakley and Walsh, 2002; Kaufman et al., 2005; Matsui et al., 2006), and cloud resolving model (CRM) studies show that changes in LWP depend on meteorological conditions (Ackerman et al., 2004; Xue et al., 2008; Small et al., 2009).”
• Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change (2020, background): “Altered droplet size distributions also affect entrainment-mixing319 of clouds with environmental air, possibly reducing LWP (A. S. Ackerman et al., 2004;320 Small et al., 2009).”
• Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path (2018, background): “(c) Evaporation–entrainment feedbacks (Wang et al., 2003; Xue and Feingold, 2006; Jiang et al., 2006; Small et al., 2009; Dagan et al., 2017) – smaller droplets have a faster evaporation timescale, enhancing the cooling and hence the negative buoyancy at the edge of cumulus clouds.”
• Global observations of aerosol‐cloud‐precipitation‐climate interactions (2014, background): “…and simulation-based indications that adding CCN to nonprecipitating clouds may enhance theirmixing and evaporation due to faster evaporation of the smaller drops, thus the loss of cloud water counteracting the negative radiative forcing due to the Twomey effect [e.g., Small et al., 2009].”
• The case against climate regulation via oceanic phytoplankton sulphur emissions (2011, background): “Aerosols can affect not only cloud microphysics (cloud droplet size and number concentration) but also cloud macrophysics (cloud fraction, size and morphology”
• Large‐eddy simulation of the transient and near‐equilibrium behavior of precipitating shallow convection (2015, unknown): “The University of California, Los Angeles large-eddy simulation (UCLA-LES) model of Stevens et al. [1999, 2005] is used here to simulate the cloud-topped boundary layer of marine subtropical subsidence regions, the trade wind regime. The UCLA-LES solves the anelastic equations and models the effect ”
• Cloud condensation nuclei production associated with atmospheric nucleation: a synthesis based on existing literature and new results (2012, background): “…include cloud microphysical properties (e.g. Mccomiskey et al., 2009; Shao and Liu, 2009), cloud cover and lifetime (e.g. Kaufman and Koren, 2006; Small et al., 2009), and the probability of clouds precipitating (Rosenfeld et al., 2008; Khain, 2009; Sorooshian et al., 2009; Stevens and Feingold,…”
• Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud fraction (2016, background): “It is also possible that a reduction in cloud droplet size may also lead to increased evaporation and a reduction in CF [Ackerman et al., 2000; Small et al., 2009].”