Microphysical properties of low level clouds in West Africa and the tropical Atlantic and their sensitivity to aerosol and updraft distributions

Christiane Voigt1, Valerian Hahn1, Jonathan Taylor2, Yvonne Boose1, Stefan Kaufmann1, Jonas Kleine1, Daniel N Sauer3, Valéry Catoire4, Hugh Coe2, Phil Rosenberg5, Régis Dupuy6, Alfons Schwarzenboeck7, Cyrille Flamant8 and Hans Schlager9, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (3)Ludwig Maximilians University, Meteorological Institute, Munich, Germany, (4)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (5)University of Leeds, Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex, France, (8)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (9)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany