On impacts of overlying solar-absorbing aerosol layers on the transition of stratocumulus to trade cumulus clouds

Andrew S Ackerman1, Xiaoli Zhou2, Ann M Fridlind3, Robert Wood4 and Pavlos Kollias2, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (2)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States