Light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols (LACs), including black carbon and light-absorbing
organic carbon (brown carbon, BrC), have an important role in the Earth system via heating …

This paper reviews progress in the study of aerosol-cloud interactions over the Tibetan
Plateau (TP) in the past decade. Clarifying the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions over …

Clouds and aerosols continue to contribute the largest uncertainty to estimates and
interpretations of the Earth's changing energy budget. This chapter focuses on process …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately
0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the satellite era …

Carbonaceous aerosols affect the global radiative balance by absorbing and scattering
radiation, which leads to warming or cooling of the atmosphere, respectively. Black carbon is …

We utilize energy budget diagnostics from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
phase 5 (CMIP5) to evaluate the models' climate forcing since preindustrial times employing …

Precipitation is expected to respond differently to various drivers of anthropogenic climate
change. We present the first results from the Precipitation Driver and Response Model …

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas are increasing atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentrations. These increased concentrations cause additional energy to …

Energetic constraints on precipitation are useful for understanding the response of the
hydrological cycle to ongoing climate change, its response to possible geoengineering …