Interactive comment on “Cloud albedo changes in response to anthropogenic sulfate and non-sulfate aerosol forcings in CMIP5 models” by
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In this paper, AMIP experiments with changes in all aerosol, sulphate aerosol, and non-sulfate aerosol are used to determine the effects of different aerosol types on the albedo of marine stratocumulus clouds. The main conclusion seems to be that the present day vs. pre-industrial changes in AOD due to anthropogenic aerosol, and hence any changes they induce in in cloud albedo, are small compared to AOD variability. The authors also find that, in their set of models, changes in cloud water content are more important to changes in cloud albedo than changes in AOD.
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