The role of aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions in linking anthropogenic pollution over southern west Africa and dust emission over the Sahara

Menut, Laurent; Tuccella, Paolo; Flamant, Cyrille; Deroubaix, Adrien; Gaetani, Marco

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14657-2019

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04 Dec 2019

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The role of aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions in linking anthropogenic pollution over southern west Africa and dust emission over the Sahara

Laurent Menut, Paolo Tuccella, Cyrille Flamant, Adrien Deroubaix, and Marco Gaetani

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RC1: 'Review of Menut et al. 2019, ACPD https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-658', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of "The role of aerosol-cloud interactions in linking anthropogenic pollution over southern West Africa and dust emission over the Sahara"', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Oct 2019
AC1: 'asnwers to reviewers', Laurent Menut, 06 Nov 2019

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Short summary

Aerosol direct and indirect effects are studied over west Africa in the summer of 2016 using the coupled WRF-CHIMERE regional model including aerosol–cloud interaction parameterization. Sensitivity experiments are designed to gain insights into the impact of the aerosols dominating the atmospheric composition in southern west Africa. It is shown that the decrease of anthropogenic emissions along the coast has an impact on the mineral dust load over west Africa by increasing their emissions.