Cloud condensation nuclei characteristics during the Indian summer monsoon over a rain-shadow region

Continuous aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) measurements carried out at the ground observational facility situated in the rain-shadow region of the Indian subcontinent are illustrated. These observations were part of the Cloud Aerosol Interaction Precipitation Enhancement Experiment (CAIP...

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Veröffentlicht in:Atmospheric chemistry and physics 2020-06, Vol.20 (12), p.7307-7334
Hauptverfasser: Jayachandran, Venugopalan Nair, Varghese, Mercy, Murugavel, Palani, Todekar, Kiran S, Bankar, Shivdas P, Malap, Neelam, Dinesh, Gurnule, Safai, Pramod D, Rao, Jaya, Konwar, Mahen, Dixit, Shivsai, Prabha, Thara V
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Zusammenfassung:Continuous aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) measurements carried out at the ground observational facility situated in the rain-shadow region of the Indian subcontinent are illustrated. These observations were part of the Cloud Aerosol Interaction Precipitation Enhancement Experiment (CAIPEEX) during the Indian summer monsoon season (June to September) of 2018. Observations are classified as dry–continental (monsoon break) and wet–marine (monsoon active) according to the air mass history. CCN concentrations measured for a range of supersaturations (0.2 %–1.2 %) are parameterized using Twomey's empirical relationship. CCN concentrations at low (0.2 %) supersaturation (SS) were high (>1000cm-3) during continental conditions and observed together with high black carbon (BC∼2000ngm-3) and columnar aerosol loading. During the marine air mass conditions, CCN concentrations diminished to ∼350cm-3 at 0.3 % SS and low aerosol loading persisted (BC∼800ngm-3). High CCN activation fraction (AF) of ≅0.55 (at 0.3 % SS) was observed before the monsoon rainfall, which reduced to ≅0.15 during the marine air mass and enhanced to ≅0.32 after that. There was mostly monomodal aerosol number size distribution (NSD) with a mean geometric mean diameter (GMD) of ≅85 nm, with least (≅9 %) contribution from nucleation mode (
ISSN:1680-7324
1680-7316
1680-7324
DOI:10.5194/acp-20-7307-2020