Session 4B Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds I

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Chair:
Robert Wood, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA
CoChair:
Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Rsmas/Mpo, Miami, FL

Many shallow cloud systems are sensitive to changes in aerosol properties, which modulate cloud microphysical properties and can influence precipitation formation and cloud scale dynamics. In addition, absorbing aerosols can modulate the thermodynamic environment experienced by clouds. Ultimately, these controls may alter low cloud radiative properties and climate. Aerosol particles, in turn, are impacted by shallow cloud processes. Together, these interactions result in a coupling of the aerosol-cloud system whose coupling strength is highly variable and is poorly understood in terms of basic process understanding. Correctly representing this coupling has proven challenging to represent in large scale models. In this session, we invite presentations on all topics related to aerosol-cloud coupling in shallow clouds, including those addressing basic physical understanding, the quantification of aerosol indirect effects, cloud effects on aerosols, and the coupling between aerosols and boundary layer turbulence, cloud dynamics, and precipitation.

Papers:
4:30 PM
4B.5
4:45 PM
4B.6
Processing of Aerosol Particles by Tradewind Cumuli at a Mountain Top in Puerto Rico
Graciela B. Raga, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and D. Baumgardner and O. L. Mayol-Bracero
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