Recent improvements and maximum covariance analysis of aerosol and cloud properties in the EC-Earth3-AerChem model
Manu Anna Thomas,Klaus Wyser,Shiyu Wang,Marios Chatziparaschos,Paraskevi Georgakaki,Montserrat Costa-Surós,Maria Gonçalves Ageitos,Maria Kanakidou,Carlos Pérez García-Pando,Athanasios Nenes,Twan van Noije,Philippe Le Sager,and Abhay Devasthale
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Center for Studies of Air Quality and Climate Change, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), 26504 Patras, Greece
Aerosol–cloud interactions occur at a range of spatio-temporal scales. While evaluating recent developments in EC-Earth3-AerChem, this study aims to understand the extent to which the Twomey effect manifests itself at larger scales. We find a reduction in the warm bias over the Southern Ocean due to model improvements. While we see footprints of the Twomey effect at larger scales, the negative relationship between cloud droplet number and liquid water drives the shortwave radiative effect.
Aerosol–cloud interactions occur at a range of spatio-temporal scales. While evaluating recent...