Fig. 4: Temporal relationship between static stability and updraft velocity.

Lead‒lag correlation between static stability over land and updraft velocity over sea at 900 hPa for the high-aerosol minus control (red) and low-aerosol minus control (blue) simulations. Notice that the maxima appear at lag ‒1 hour. Note that the correlation between updraft velocity over the sea and precipitation over the sea is maximized at lag 0.