The relationship between cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentration and light extinction of dried particles: indications of underlying aerosol processes and implications for satellite-based CCN estimate

Yohei Shinozuka1, Antony D Clarke2, Athanasios Nenes3, Anne Jefferson4, Robert Wood5, Cameron S McNaughton6, J. Ström7, Peter Tunved7, Jens Redemann8, Kenneth Lee Thornhill II9, Richard Moore10, Terry L Lathem11, Jack J Lin12 and Y.J. Yoon13, (1)Universities Space Research Association, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Univ Hawaii/Dept Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (6)Golder Associates Ltd., Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (7)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (10)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (11)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (12)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (13)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea