Sensitivities of Amazonian clouds to aerosols and updraft speed

Funding

The ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign was supported by the Max Planck Society (MPG), the German Science Foundation (DFG Priority Program SPP 1294), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) (grants 2009/15235-8 and 2013/05014-0), and a wide range of other institutional partners. It was carried out in collaboration with the USA-Brazilian atmosphere research project GoAmazon2014/5, including numerous institutional partners. We would like to thank the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA) for local logistic help prior, during, and after the campaign. Thanks also to the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB: Agencia Espacial Brasileira), who were responsible for the program of cooperation (CNPq license 00254/2013-9 of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The contribution of Daniel Rosenfeld was supported by project BACCHUS European Commission FP7-603445. Micael A. Cecchini was funded by FAPESP grants 2014/08615-7 and 2014/21189-7. B. Weinzierl would like to acknowledge funding from the Helmholtz Association (grant no. VH-NG-606, AerCARE) and from the European Research Council under the European Community's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework program/ERC grant agreement 640458 (A-LIFE). The entire ACRIDICON-CHUVA project team is gratefully acknowledged for collaboration and support. The data used in this study can be found at http://www.halo.dlr.de/halo-db/. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions from the two anonymous referees that greatly improved the quality of this paper.