Fig. 2: Simulated liquid water path (LWP) against cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) for the case of cloud optical depth (COD) and cloud effective radius (CER) error of 15%. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Simulated liquid water path (LWP) against cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) for the case of cloud optical depth (COD) and cloud effective radius (CER) error of 15%.

From: Aerosol effects on clouds are concealed by natural cloud heterogeneity and satellite retrieval errors

Fig. 2

\({{{{{{{\rm{dlnCDNC/dlnCCN}}}}}}}}=0.8\) and dlnLWP/dlnCDNC = 0.5 were prescribed. The initial values of 100 cm−3 for cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), 40 cm−3 for CDNC and 80 gm−2 for LWP were assumed. a The CER is shown as color bar. The circles show the imposed relationship in the LWP adjustment (dlnLWP/dlnCDNC). b The box-plot of the same results shown in panel a. The red dots show the mean, blue horizontal lines show the median and the box height is determined by the first and third quartiles. c Median values resulting from varying levels of relative/absolute error. Unit of absolute CER error is μm and absolute COD error is unitless.

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