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Title: Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon

Abstract

Measurements and models show that enhanced aerosol concentrations can modify macro- and micro-physical properties of clouds. Here, we examine the effect of aerosols on continental mesoscale convective cloud systems during the Indian summer monsoon and find that these aerosol–cloud interactions have a net cooling effect at the surface and the top-of-atmosphere. Long-term (2002–2016) satellite data provide evidence of aerosol-induced cloud invigoration effect (AIvE) during the Indian summer monsoon. The AIvE leads to enhanced formation of thicker stratiform anvil clouds at higher altitudes. These AIvE-induced stratiform anvil clouds are also relatively brighter because of the presence of smaller sized ice particles. As a result, AIvE-induced increase in shortwave cloud radiative forcing is much larger than longwave cloud radiative forcing leading to the intensified net cooling effect of clouds over the Indian summer monsoon region. Such aerosol-induced cooling could subsequently decrease the surface diurnal temperature range and have significant feedbacks on lower tropospheric turbulence in a warmer and polluted future scenario.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2];  [4]
  1. Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), Kanpur (India); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Hyderabad, Telangana (India)
  3. Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), Kanpur (India)
  4. Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), Delhi, New Delhi (India)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Government of India; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1691458
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-140935
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830; F.4-5/230-FRP/2015/BSR; ECR/2016/001333; MM/NERC-MoES-03/2014/002
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; atmospheric dynamics; atmospheric science

Citation Formats

Sarangi, Chandan N., Kanawade, Vijay P., Tripathi, Sachchida N., Thomas, Abin, and Ganguly, Dilip. Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06015-5.
Sarangi, Chandan N., Kanawade, Vijay P., Tripathi, Sachchida N., Thomas, Abin, & Ganguly, Dilip. Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06015-5
Sarangi, Chandan N., Kanawade, Vijay P., Tripathi, Sachchida N., Thomas, Abin, and Ganguly, Dilip. Fri . "Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06015-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1691458.
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title = {Aerosol-induced intensification of cooling effect of clouds during Indian summer monsoon},
author = {Sarangi, Chandan N. and Kanawade, Vijay P. and Tripathi, Sachchida N. and Thomas, Abin and Ganguly, Dilip},
abstractNote = {Measurements and models show that enhanced aerosol concentrations can modify macro- and micro-physical properties of clouds. Here, we examine the effect of aerosols on continental mesoscale convective cloud systems during the Indian summer monsoon and find that these aerosol–cloud interactions have a net cooling effect at the surface and the top-of-atmosphere. Long-term (2002–2016) satellite data provide evidence of aerosol-induced cloud invigoration effect (AIvE) during the Indian summer monsoon. The AIvE leads to enhanced formation of thicker stratiform anvil clouds at higher altitudes. These AIvE-induced stratiform anvil clouds are also relatively brighter because of the presence of smaller sized ice particles. As a result, AIvE-induced increase in shortwave cloud radiative forcing is much larger than longwave cloud radiative forcing leading to the intensified net cooling effect of clouds over the Indian summer monsoon region. Such aerosol-induced cooling could subsequently decrease the surface diurnal temperature range and have significant feedbacks on lower tropospheric turbulence in a warmer and polluted future scenario.},
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journal = {Nature Communications},
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year = {Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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