Articles | Volume 19, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8503-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8503-2019
Research article
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04 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 04 Jul 2019

Aerosol influences on low-level clouds in the West African monsoon

Jonathan W. Taylor, Sophie L. Haslett, Keith Bower, Michael Flynn, Ian Crawford, James Dorsey, Tom Choularton, Paul J. Connolly, Valerian Hahn, Christiane Voigt, Daniel Sauer, Régis Dupuy, Joel Brito, Alfons Schwarzenboeck, Thierry Bourriane, Cyrielle Denjean, Phil Rosenberg, Cyrille Flamant, James D. Lee, Adam R. Vaughan, Peter G. Hill, Barbara Brooks, Valéry Catoire, Peter Knippertz, and Hugh Coe

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AR by Jonathan Taylor on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 May 2019) by Lynn M. Russell
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (13 May 2019)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (03 Jun 2019)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Jun 2019) by Lynn M. Russell
AR by Jonathan Taylor on behalf of the Authors (03 Jun 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (04 Jun 2019) by Lynn M. Russell
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Short summary
Low-level clouds cover a wide area of southern West Africa (SWA) and play an important role in the region's climate, reflecting sunlight away from the surface. We performed aircraft measurements of aerosols and clouds over SWA during the 2016 summer monsoon and found pollution, and polluted clouds, across the whole region. Smoke from biomass burning in Central Africa is transported to West Africa, causing a polluted background which limits the effect of local pollution on cloud properties.
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