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Takemura et al. 2007
Takemura, T., Kaufman, Y.J., Remer, L.A. and Nakajima, T. (2007). Two competing pathways of aerosol effects on cloud and precipitation formation. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi: 10.1029/2006GL028349. issn: 0094-8276.

Aerosols may influence cloud formation through two pathways: One is the effect on cloud microphysics by forming smaller and more numerous cloud droplets reducing precipitation and consequently enhancing cloud lifetime. The second is referred to as the aerosol dynamic-hydrological effect in which the aerosol direct, semi-direct, and indirect effects can modulate atmospheric radiation, which perturbs atmospheric circulation, leading to redistributions of clouds and precipitation. Here this study examines climate sensitivities using a general circulation model coupled with an aerosol transport-radiation model. The model is run first with prescribed meteorology in order to isolate the cloud microphysical effect. It is run in a separate experiment with internally generated meteorology that includes dynamic-hydrological effect as the aerosols modify clouds and interact with the radiation. We find in some regions that the dynamic-hydrological effect in the free model runs counteracts the microphysical effects seen in the prescribed runs.

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Keywords
Atmospheric Processes, Clouds and aerosols, Atmospheric Processes, Climate change and variability (1616, 1635, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes, Global climate models (1626, 4928), Global Change, Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Atmospheric Processes, Radiative processes
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Geophysical Research Letters
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