Atmosphere cleaning by heavy precipitation: quantitative assessment of aerosol washout and boundary layer recover evaluated by MPLNET lidar measurements.

Simone Lolli1, Ellsworth Judd Welton2, James R Campbell3, Xiaowen Li4, Graham Feingold5, Boon Ning Chew6, Santo V Salinas Cortijo7, Soo Chin Liew7 and Gilberto Javier Fochesatto8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Morgan State University, Climate Science, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Meteorological Service of Singapore, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (7)National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Fairbanks, United States