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Aerosols-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in the Climate System
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mainz, Germany
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The global annual mean Earth’s energy budget for 2000-2004 (W m–2). The arrows indicate the flow of energy in proportion to their importance (Trenberth et al., 2009).
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Climate Forcing
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Aerosols are the major
uncertainty
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Outline
• Aerosol sources and distributions • CCN properties of aerosols • Aerosol climate effects overview • Aerosol precipitation interactions
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Aerosol Burden from Diverse Sources
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There is no observational support for the old classification into “continental” and “maritime” aerosol (and cloud physics “regimes”!)
A Global Mean Aerosol Climatology
S. Kinne, 2008
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Global Distribution of CCN and AOT
CCN concentrations and AOD over the cleanest continental sites are similar to the cleanest marine sites!
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Observations:
• We see strong signals from pollution, dust, smoke and salt, but very low AOT over the remaining regions
• There is surprisingly little contrast in AOT and CCN between clean ocean and clean continents
• This is supported by in situ measurements in Amazonia and Siberia
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Outline
• Aerosol sources and distributions • CCN properties of aerosols • Aerosol climate effects overview • Aerosol precipitation interactions
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Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)
• A CCN is a particle that can nucleate a cloud droplet at a particular water vapor supersaturation
• Without CCN, a supersaturation of about 800% would be required (because of the Kelvin effect). Cloud base would be at about 5 km.
• CCN help droplet nucleation by supplying solutes that help keep the water molecules in the liquid phase (the Raoult effect)
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Kelvin’s Law Equilibrium water partial pressure over a flat surface (from Clausius-Clapeyron):
Saturation ratio:
Kelvins law describes the increase in vapor pressure with decreasing diameter (or radius of curvature)
(for pure water)
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Cloud formation in “pure air” • To form stable water clusters that can
grow into cloud droplets, a saturation ratio of ca. 8-9 would be required
• For typical conditions (dew point ca. 13°C), this would require cooling air to ca. -15 to -20°C
• This would result in cloud base at about 4-5 km altitude
• In real atmosphere, clouds form lower, so something must come to help
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Raoult’s Law Water equilibrium vapor pressure is lower over salt solutions:
Kelvins law describes the decrease in vapor pressure with increasing solution concentration
Combining Kelvin’s and Raoult’s law yields the Köhler equation:
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Köhler Theory of Droplet Activation
Kelvin Term
Raoult Term
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Critical supersaturation, Sc
The critical supersaturation, Sc, at which an aerosol particle is activated to become a cloud droplet depends on: • particle size (ds – dry particle diameter) • chemical composition (! – soluble fraction; " – dissociation factor;
#s – density; Ms – molecular weight)
We could derive the critical supersaturation if we know the size and composition of the particle (as long as there is some valid mixing rule)
Note that “chemistry” variables enter at first power, size at THIRD power!
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Chemical composition of aerosols
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Water-soluble organics in smoke
aerosol
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Additional Complications • Surface tension reduction (surfactants)
– Reduces Kelvin effect (“better CCN”) • Limited solubility (organics)
– Reduces Raoult effect (“worse CCN”) • Insoluble coatings (oily substances)
– Slow down water uptake • Soluble gaseous species
– HNO3, NH3; facilitate droplet nucleation
Is it all just too complicated … ?
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Critical supersaturation, Sc
The critical supersaturation, Sc, at which an aerosol particle is activated to become a cloud droplet depends on: • particle size (ds – dry particle diameter) • chemical composition (! – soluble fraction; " – dissociation factor;
#s – density; Ms – molecular weight)
Size resolved measurements eliminate one free variable (size) and are useful to: 1. Directly determine activation diameters of ambient aerosol 2. Study the role of chemical composition for CCN activation
Note that “chemistry” variables enter at first power, size at THIRD power!
At constant composition, sc should decrease as a function of ds with a logarithmic slope of -2/3
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Size-resolved CCN Measurements
Sachin Gunthe
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Sc-dp-! Space:
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Definition of Hygroscopicity Parameter ! The saturation ratio, Sw, over an aqueous solution droplet can be calculated from
where aw is the activity of water in solution, "w is the density of water, Mw is the molecular weight of water, #sa is the surface tension of the solution/air interface, R is the universal gas constant, T is temperature, and D is the diameter of the droplet. The hygroscopicity parameter is defined through its effect on the water activity of the solution:
where Vs is the volume of the dry particulate matter and Vw is the volume of the water.
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The world in Sc-dp-! Space: Observed ! values: Continental (polluted): 0.3±0.1 Continental (clean): 0.2±0.1 Biomass Smoke: 0.2±0.1 Marine (clean): 0.7±0.2
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Chemical composition of aerosols
Organic Aerosol
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Fig. 4 (A) 2D framework for OA aging
Organic Aerosol Evolution
J. L. Jimenez et al., Science 326, 1525-1529 (2009)
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J. L. Jimenez et al., Science 326, 1525-1529 (2009)
Fig. 3 Relationship between O:C and hygroscopicity ($, or equivalently the particle growth factor at 95% relative humidity) of OA for several field data sets (a high-altitude site at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland; above Mexico City, a polluted megacity; and at the forested site of Hyytiälä, Finland) and for laboratory smog chamber SOA
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Influence of composition on hygroscopicity Smoke aerosol falls on
mixing line between sulfate (!=0.6) and lab Secondary Organic Aerosol (!$0.1)
Polluted Continental
Clean Amazon
Smoke
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Global distribution of !
Pringle et al., ACP 2010
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Global CCN/CN Relationship
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Summary on CCN • CCN properties are in principle influenced by complex
combination of chemical properties and size • In real-world aerosols, the range of composition
converges to a small range of hygroscopicities, dominated by inorganic component
• Size distributions also are variable, but again converge, thus:
• There is a surprisingly constant ratio of CCN to total particle number concentrations
• CCN measurements over biologically active ocean and land are similar (low hundreds per cc) – away from biol. activity they are much lower (tens per cc)
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Outline, Lecture 2
• Aerosol sources and distributions • CCN properties of aerosols • Aerosol climate effects overview • Aerosol precipitation interactions
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“Direct” Effects
Note: Haze is lighter than surface almost everywhere, especially over water, but darker over the low cloud patch in the Po Valley
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External Mixing +0.27
Black Carbon Core +0.54
Internal Mixing +0.78
Aerosol Mixing State of Black Carbon Forcing
(W m-2, Jacobson, 2000)
Because of large uncertainties on both the amount of absorbing carbon in the atmosphere, and its absorption efficiency, this forcing is still highly uncertain!!
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Semidirect Effect: Cloud suppression by Smoke in the Amazon
(Koren et al., Science 2004)
clean region: cloudy
smoky region: cloudless
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Cloud suppression by Smoke in the Amazon (Koren et al., Science 2004)
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Beijing
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Indirect Aerosol Effects
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To prove that aerosols are needed to form clouds, a movie:
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Aerosol Climate Forcing Mechanisms Overview
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Outline
• Aerosol sources and distributions • CCN properties of aerosols • Aerosol climate effects overview • Aerosol precipitation interactions
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What is the role of aerosols in determining if clouds are like this:
Or like this:
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Evidence for aerosol effects on precipitation
“Pyro”-Cloud over forest fire in Yukon, Canada
• Up to recently, only indirect evidence from remote sensing: Lightning frequency, Cloud effective radii (MODIS, AVHRR), TRMM Precipitation radar…
• From some recent experiments, direct in-situ measurements in clean and polluted clouds (Amazon, Thailand, California)
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April - the wet and clean time of year: Note the shallow precipitating clouds, extensive warm rainout, glaciation at T>-10oC, and few lightning events
TRMM VIRS+PR, Amazon, 1998 04 13 16:28
VIRS T-Re
The “Green Ocean”: Maritime clouds over the Amazon
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VIRS+PR, Amazon, 1998 13 SEP 14:15
VIRS T-Re
TOMS Aerosol Index 13 September 1998
September: The Fire Season
Note that clouds do not precipitate before reaching height of 6.5 km or –12oC isotherm, while containing ample cloud water.
The “Green Ocean” turns dry: Smoky clouds over the Amazon
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VIRS+PR, Amazon, 1998 09 15 18:16
VIRS T-Re
PR H-Z
When the “smoky clouds” become Cb, they spark lightning and high Z
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The „Green Ocean“ - maritime-type clouds over the pristine Amazon
• 100-300 CCN(1%) per cc, mostly from biogenic sources (DMS, H2S, VOC, …) • Rainfall from clouds of all sizes, “warm” process predominates
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Smoke from many fires blends into a smoke-laden boundary layer...
• 1000s to 10000s of CCN from smoke and pollution • Rainfall from modest-size cloud suppressed • Precipitation from large cumuli, from ice and mixed-phase processes
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Pyrocumulus Cloud
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Addition of pyrogenic CCN has
pronounced impact on
cloud droplet size
spectra!
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Aerosol pollution increases the height where cloud drops grow big enough to grow by coagulation and form “warm” rain
Andreae et al., SCIENCE, 303(2004)1337-1342
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Deforestation fire, Brazil: a “Smoking Cloud”
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Smoke detraining from cloud top
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Chisholm – The Perfect Storm
Total heat release equivalent to ~1200 Hiroshima bombs
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Pyro-cumulus over Chisholm Fire
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In spite of the very high echo tops, the Chisholm pyro-cumulus shows weak reflectivity: little precipitation
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Active tracer high-resolution atmospheric model (ATHAM)
ATHAM Navier Stokes Equations
Wind, Transport
Dynamics Cloud Microphysics
Fire Emissions
Biomass burned: 10 kg/m2 % total energy flux: 530 kJ/m2/s (50% contributes to convection) % total sensible heat flux: 265 kJ/m2/s (= 2000 GW) Water Vapor Emission: 26 g H2O/m2/s (55% from combustion) % Potential Latent Energy Flux: 74 kJ/m2/s Aerosol Emission: 400 mg/m2/s
Model domain: x = y = 60 km; z = 28 km; Grid resolution: dx = 500 m; dy = 100 m; dz = 50 m (at fire) Size of fire front: x = 15 km; y = 500 m, area: 7.5 km2
Rate of spread: 1.5 m/s Time Step: 1 s
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The Chisholm Pyro-Cb modeled
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Sensible Heat 50% Sensible Heat 25%
No H2O from Fire CCN = 200 cm-3
Sensitivity of pyroCb development to changing input of heat, water vapor and CCN from the fire
Luderer et al., ACP (2006)
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Stratospheric injection requires heat input from fire:
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Small hydrometeor class
Large hydrometeor class
REF
REF
Low CCN
Low CCN
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Wave-breaking at Tropopause…
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…injects smoke into Stratosphere
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Clean Air
Polluted
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Thermodynamic consequences of warm precipitation suppression by aerosols
“Extra” released static energy [J kg-1]
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Radiative and microphysical effects on cloud convection intensity
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Observational evidence for non-monotonic response of clouds to aerosols
Koren et al., Science 2008
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Summary on aerosol-precipitation interactions
• Aerosols act on convection by radiative and microphysical effects
• Radiative effect is monotonically increasing suppression
• Microphysical effect leads first to invigoration by shift to ice processes, then to weakening by suppressing cold precipitation as well
• This has consequences at all scales, from local (rain intensity, hail, lightning) to global (general circulation)
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But, there are many other processes that connect aerosol and precipitation, e.g., … • In warm clouds, suppression of early precipitation forces
increased evaporation, which destabilizes the convective layer, and thus invigorates convection and precipitation.
• Over the ocean, higher windspeeds enhance both aerosol production and evaporation, thus increasing both AOD and rainfall
• … " We are still a long way from a comprehensive and
quantitative understanding of the processes that control the interactions between aerosols, clouds and precipitation.
• The joint iLEAPS/IGAC/GEWEX project Aerosol-Clouds-Precipitation-Climate (ACPC) was created with the goal to improve this understanding
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