Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?

By Daniel Rosenfeld, Ulrike Lohmann, G. Raga, C. O’Dowd, Markku Kulmala, S. Fuzzi, A. Reissell, M. Andreae. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Alexander Khain
2. William Cotton
3. Daniel Rosenfeld
4. S. C. Heever
5. V. Phillips
6. Hugh Morrison
7. M. Andreae
8. Mark Pinsky

In Earth-Surface Processes

1. Alexander Khain
2. Daniel Rosenfeld
3. V. Phillips
4. Klaus D. Beheng
5. William Cotton
6. Mark Pinsky
7. M. Andreae
8. S. C. Heever

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Alexander Khain
2. Daniel Rosenfeld
3. William Cotton
4. V. Phillips
5. S. C. Heever
6. Hugh Morrison
7. Mark Pinsky
8. Klaus D. Beheng

Citations in the corpus

• Detection of Cloud-Base Height Using Jenoptik CHM15K and Vaisala CL31 Ceilometers (2010, background): “Recent studies have shown also that aerosol or CCN availability can increase or decrease precipitation rates, leading to flooding or droughts, depending on a complex interactions between aerosols, CCN, and dynamics (Rosenfeld et al. 2008).”
• Understanding Hail in the Earth System (2020, background): “Further, Lebo (2018) demonstrated that the proposed aerosol-invigoration effect from increased latent heating for the larger number of droplets proposed by Rosenfeld et al. (2008) is small and likely unmeasurable.”
• A numerical study of the effect of different aerosol types on East Asian summer clouds and precipitation (2013, neutral): “It has been suggested that aerosols could suppress the warm rain processes in the convection, generate an extra latent heat release at high levels, and invigorate the convection (Rosenfeld et al., 2008).”
• Representation of microphysical processes in cloud‐resolving models: Spectral (bin) microphysics versus bulk parameterization (2015, background): “…precipitation, and other atmospheric features at a wide range of scales, from that of single cloud to global scales [Khain et al., 2005; van den Heever et al., 2006; Levin and Cotton 2007; Rosenfeld et al., 2008; Khain, 2009; van den Heever et al., 2011; Tao et al., 2007, 2012; Fan et al., 2013].”
• Lightning enhancement over major oceanic shipping lanes (2017, background): “These studies have typically found positive correlations, but weak or even negative correlations are also reported; in addition, the effects of CCN on cloud microphysics, convection, and electrification are nonlinear and can saturate [Rosenfeld, 2000; Rosenfeld et al., 2008; THORNTON ET AL.”
• Fluorescent biological aerosol particles measured with the Waveband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor WIBS-4: laboratory tests combined with a one year field study (2012, background): “Mineral dust is also one of the most abundant aerosols in the atmosphere (Rosenfeld et al., 2008; Monks et al., 2009) and its fluorescence ability might be the strongest interference factor of the UV-LIF method.”