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Wang 2005
Wang, C. (2005). A modeling study of the response of tropical deep convection to the increase of cloud condensation nuclei concentration: 2. Radiation and tropospheric chemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: doi: 10.1029/2005JD005829. issn: 0148-0227.

Following the discussion in a previous companion paper on the responses of cloud dynamics and microphysics to the changes in initial concentration of aerosols suitable of serving as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN0), the consequent impacts of these responses on cloud radiative effect and tropospheric chemistry are studied using a three-dimensional cloud-resolving model. The radiative forcings of modeled cloud are found to generally increase with CCN0. This increase with CCN0 is more closely correlated to the changes in cloud coverage rather than other cloud properties. The enhanced convective strength of the modeled cloud with CCN0 affects the redistributions of chemical species including aerosols and water vapor. These impacts include an enhanced moistening of cloudy air while drying outside, an increase in the abundance of slowly soluble gases such as CO in the upper troposphere, and a simultaneous low availability of soluble gases attributed to the enhanced scavenging by cloud droplets. Additionally, the heterogeneous uptake of chemical species by ice particles is found to largely relate to the origins of these species and this uptake is also influenced by the changes in CCN0. Although the impacts of cloud on photochemistry are significant, these impacts appear to be not very sensitive to the changes in CCN0, caused primarily by the thick cloud layer in the modeled case.

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud physics and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud/radiation interaction, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere, composition and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere, constituent transport and chemistry, aerosol and cloud, cloud radiation, cloud chemistry
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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