Manuscript Published
A manuscript entitled “Pollution from China increases cloud droplet number, suppresses rain over the East China Sea” written by Ralf Bennartz, Jiwen Fan, John Rausch, L. Ruby Leung, and Andrew K. Heidinger, is being published in Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, LXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2011GL047235, 2011. The paper illustrates that rapid economic growth over the last 30 years in China has led to a significant increase in aerosol loading, which is mainly due to the increased emissions of its precursors such as SO2 and NOx. These changes significantly affect wintertime clouds and precipitation over the East China Sea downwind of major emission sources.
