Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1587-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1587-2019
Research article
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07 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 07 Feb 2019

Influence of cloud microphysical processes on black carbon wet removal, global distributions, and radiative forcing

Jiayu Xu, Jiachen Zhang, Junfeng Liu, Kan Yi, Songlin Xiang, Xiurong Hu, Yuqing Wang, Shu Tao, and George Ban-Weiss

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In this study, we fully describe black carbon wet removal coupled with all cloud processes from a cloud microphysics scheme in a climate model and conduct sensitivity simulations that turn off each cloud process one at a time. We find that convective scavenging, aerosol activation, ice nucleation, evaporation of rain–snow, and below-cloud scavenging dominate wet deposition of BC. In addition, the range of direct radiative forcing derived from sensitivity simulations is large, 0.09–0.33 W m−2.
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