Anthropogenic aerosols may have increased upper tropospheric humidity in the 20th century

Recent simulations of deep convection with a spectral microphysics cloud model show that an increase in aerosol concentration can have a significant effect on the nature of convection with more ice precipitation and less warm rain in polluted air. The cloud lifetime and the area covered by cloud anv...

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Main Authors: M. Bister, M. Kulmala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-05-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/4577/2011/acp-11-4577-2011.pdf