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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-6552</article-id>
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<article-title>Aerosol Scavenging in DC3 and SEAC&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;RS Deep Convective Storms</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Barth</surname>
<given-names>Mary C.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Campuzano-Jost</surname>
<given-names>Pedro</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3930-010X</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cuchiara</surname>
<given-names>Gustavo</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Parottil</surname>
<given-names>Ajay</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jimenez</surname>
<given-names>Jose L.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-1847</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hilario</surname>
<given-names>Miguel Ricardo A.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3649-3428</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lorenzo</surname>
<given-names>Genevieve Rose</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sorooshian</surname>
<given-names>Armin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2243-2264</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000 USA</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>CIRES and Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0216 USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado 80246-1523  USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>now at: Meteorology Department, Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, Abu Dhabi, UAE</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>now at: Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>now at: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Rosenstiel School, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, 33149 USA</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Mary C. Barth et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Convective storms frequently occur over the central US during the late spring and summer impacting upper tropospheric composition, which in turn affects the radiative forcing of the climate system. Two important processes in deep convection are vertical transport and removal of trace gases and aerosols by microphysical scavenging. We calculate scavenging efficiencies of speciated aerosol mass concentrations based primarily on aircraft observations from the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) and the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;RS) field experiments combined with process-scale modeling. Sulfate and ammonium scavenging efficiencies are generally greater than 75 % for all storms analyzed. Particulate nitrate scavenging efficiencies are moderate (~40 %). In some cases, the particulate nitrate concentrations are larger in the storm outflow region compared to the inflow region. Further analysis shows the role of entrainment of mid-tropospheric particulate nitrate layers and lightning production of nitrogen oxides in affecting the particulate nitrate outflow concentrations. Organic aerosol scavenging efficiencies are greater than 75 % in severe storms, comparable to sulfate and ammonium, but ~50 % for weak and moderate storms. Production of organic acids in cloud water is shown to contribute to organic aerosol mass in the outflow regions for the mid-day storms sampled, which may explain why those storms have lower apparent scavenging efficiencies. These results, which highlight the complex interactions between dynamics, physics, and chemistry in thunderstorms, can be used by chemistry transport models as a way to evaluate convective storm processing of aerosols.</p>
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