Disproportionate Control on Aerosol Burden by Light Rain
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摘要
Atmospheric aerosols are of great climate and environmental importance due to their effects on the Earth’s radiative energy balance and air quality. Aerosol concentrations are strongly influenced by rainfall via wet removal. Global climate models have been used to quantify their climate and health effects. However, they commonly suffer from a well-known problem of “too much light rain and too little heavy rain”. The impact of simulated rainfall intensities on aerosol burden at the global scale is still unclear. Here, we show that rainfall intensity has profound impacts on aerosol burden, and light rain has a disproportionate control on it. By improving the representation of convection, the light rain (1-20 mm d-1) frequency in two state-of-the-art global climate models is reduced. As a result, the aerosol burden is increased globally, especially over the tropics and subtropics, by as much as 0.3 in aerosol optical depth in tropical rain belts. It is attributed to the dominant contribution of light rain to the accumulated wet removal by its frequent occurrence despite its weak intensity. The implication of these findings is that understanding the nature of aerosol scavenging by rainfall is critical to aerosol-climate interaction and its impact on climate.
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aerosol,Precipitation,convection,climate model
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