Fig. 4: Simulation of less and more polluted cases. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Simulation of less and more polluted cases.

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

Fig. 4

For less polluted case (red dots) assuming values of cloud effective radius (CER) and liquid water path (LWP) of 13 μm and 100 gm−2, respectively, and for more polluted case (blue dots) values of CER and LWP of 10 μm and 130 gm−2, respectively. Relative error of 25% was assumed for both cloud optical depth (COD) and CER. Cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) binned mean values of LWP are shown for both cases separately and also for the combined dataset including both cases (dashed line). Large red and blue circles show the initial values for CDNC and LWP for the less and more polluted case, respectively.

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