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ArticleAtmospheric chemistry and physics2020

On the relationship between cloud water composition and cloud droplet number concentration.

Alexander B MacDonald, Ali Hossein Mardi, Hossein Dadashazar, Mojtaba Azadi Aghdam, Ewan Crosbie, Haflidi H Jonsson, Richard C Flagan, John H Seinfeld, Armin Sorooshian

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Article in Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Competition response of cloud supersaturation explains diminished Twomey effect for smoky aerosol in the tropical Atlantic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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9 authors.

Alexander B MacDonaldDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ali Hossein MardiDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Hossein DadashazarDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Mojtaba Azadi AghdamDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ewan CrosbieScience Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA.
Haflidi H JonssonNaval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.
Richard C FlaganDepartment of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
John H SeinfeldDepartment of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Armin SorooshianDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aerosol-cloud interactions are the largest source of uncertainty in quantifying anthropogenic radiative forcing. The large uncertainty is, in part, due to the difficulty of predicting cloud microphysical parameters, such as the cloud droplet number concentration (

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