Fig. 3: Water vapor mixing ratio response to aerosol perturbation in shallow-convective clouds simulations.
Vertical profiles of the domain and time mean a change in water vapor mixing ratio—qv, and b relative change in qv due to an aerosol perturbation (normalized to an order-of-magnitude increase in aerosol concentration) from 45 different sets of simulations of shallow-convective cloud fields representing a wide range of environmental conditions and produced by different models. The blue and red curves present results from simulations with idealized BCs, while the rest of the curves are based on realistic simulations (see Fig. 4 for a more detailed view). For details about the different simulations, please see the Methods section.
