Locally Enhanced Aerosols Over a Shipping Lane Produce Convective Invigoration but Weak Overall Indirect Effects in Cloud-Resolving Simulations

Blossey, Peter N.; Bretherton, Christopher S.; Thornton, Joel A.; Virts, Katrina S.

doi:10.1029/2018gl078682

Title: Locally Enhanced Aerosols Over a Shipping Lane Produce Convective Invigoration but Weak Overall Indirect Effects in Cloud-Resolving Simulations

Journal Article · 06 August 2018 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl078682 · OSTI ID:1539748

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Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, AL (United States)

The effect of aerosol emissions from an active shipping lane in the Indian Ocean is simulated using an idealized framework in a cloud-resolving model. Increased aerosol concentrations over the modeled shipping lane lead to increased cloud droplet number, cloud liquid mass, ice hydrometeor mass, and simulated radar reflectivity. The invigoration of deep convection induces mesoscale uplift and increased precipitation over the shipping lane. A predicted increase in the prevalence of both strong updrafts and radar echoes aloft is suggestive of enhanced lightning activity over the shipping lane, as observed in a recent study. Cloud radiative effects, both shortwave and longwave, are intensified over the shipping lane, but the change in the net radiative flux at top of atmosphere is not significantly different from zero.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011602; SC0018221

OSTI ID:: 1539748

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 45; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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