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10.5194/acpd-10-29113-2010

Space-based evaluation of interactions between pollution plumes and low-level Arctic clouds during the spring and summer of 2008

Tietze

¹ ⁴ Riedi

² Stohl

³ Garrett

T. J.

Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Utah, USA

Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Université de Lille1/CNRS, France

Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway

deceased

26 11 2010

10 11 29113 29152

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This study explores the indirect effects of anthropogenic and biomass burning aerosols on Arctic clouds by co-locating a combination of MODIS and POLDER cloud products with output from the FLEXPART tracer transport model. During the activities of the International Polar Year for the Spring and Summer of 2008, we find a high sensitivity of Arctic cloud radiative properties to both anthropogenic and biomass burning pollution plumes, particularly at air temperatures near freezing or potential temperatures near 286 K. However, the sensitivity is much lower at both colder and warmer temperatures, likely due increases in the wet scavenging of cloud condensation nuclei: the pollution plumes remain but the component that influences clouds has been removed along transport pathways. The analysis shows that, independent of temperature, cloud optical depth is approximately four times more sensitive to changes in pollution levels than is cloud effective radius. This suggests that some form of feedback mechanism amplifies the radiative response of Arctic clouds to pollution through changes in cloud liquid water path.

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