Five representative ocean regions and the sensitivity of their low-cloud properties to aerosols (IMAGE)

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Five representative ocean regions and the sensitivity of their low-cloud properties to aerosols

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Top: spatial distribution of the five representative ocean regions selected using aerosol and low-cloud screening criteria. Blue, purple, green, red and yellow denote the North Pacific, North Atlantic, South Pacific, South Atlantic and South Indian Ocean, respectively. Bottom: sensitivity distributions of cloud droplet effective radius (CER), cloud fraction (CF) and cloud optical thickness (COT) to aerosol optical depth (AOD) from 2003 to 2024.

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