Effects of biomass smoke from southern Africa on stratocumulus over southeastern Atlantic Ocean based on satellite observations and WRF-Chem model simulations

Zheng Lu, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States, Xiaohong Liu, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Kerry Meyer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Chamara Rajapakshe, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Chenglai Wu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhifeng Yang, University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, United States and Joyce Penner, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States