Investigation of the first and second aerosol indirect effects using data from the May 2003 Intensive Operational Period at the Southern Great Plains

increase as long as Na < 600 cm � 3 and remains unchanged for higher aerosol concentrations. The decrease of LWP is associated with the evaporative cooling below cloud base which leads to more condensation of water vapor, a result that is consistent with afternoon satellite observations of the response of continental clouds to increases in droplet concentrations. A sensitivity test with a stronger surface latent flux increases both the cloud geometrical thickness and cloud water content. On the other hand, a sensitivity test with a stronger surface sensible heat flux leads to a higher cloud base and a shallower and drier cloud. The response of the cloud geometrical thickness to changes in surface sensible heat flux dominates that of the cloud water content. The cloud fraction is also reduced at the end of the simulation time period. Because the surface heat fluxes will likely change when aerosol and droplet number concentrations change, these sensitivity tests show that a fully coupled simulation with a land surface model will be needed to fully assess the response of the cloud to changing aerosol concentrations. Nevertheless, since the thermodynamic boundary layer profiles do not change significantly when aerosol concentrations are changed, our results for changing aerosol concentrations are qualitatively correct.

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