Comparison of south-east Atlantic aerosol direct radiative effect over clouds from SCIAMACHY, POLDER and OMI–MODIS

de Graaf, Martin; Schulte, Ruben; Peers, Fanny; Waquet, Fabien; Tilstra, L. Gijsbert; Stammes, Piet

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6707-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6707-2020

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08 Jun 2020

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| 08 Jun 2020

Comparison of south-east Atlantic aerosol direct radiative effect over clouds from SCIAMACHY, POLDER and OMI–MODIS

Martin de Graaf, Ruben Schulte, Fanny Peers, Fabien Waquet, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, and Piet Stammes

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RC1: 'Review of de Graaf et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Sep 2019
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AC1: 'Answer to review acp-2019-545', Martin de Graaf, 28 Jan 2020

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Short summary

The radiative effect from smoke by wildfires has been found to be much stronger than models predict. The effect is complex; smoke generally cools the climate system by reflecting sunlight but strongly warms the system when it is found over a bright cloud deck. In this paper three different satellite datasets are compared and all three confirm the strong warming of African smoke over the cloud deck in the south-east Atlantic. The intercomparison reduces the uncertainties in the observations.