Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within‐The‐Atmosphere Observations: A Three‐Way Street

RA Kahn, E Andrews, CA Brock, M Chin… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its
magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable …

Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol− cloud interactions in the climate system

JH Seinfeld, C Bretherton, KS Carslaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The effect of an increase in atmospheric aerosol concentrations on the distribution and
radiative properties of Earth's clouds is the most uncertain component of the overall global …

Opinion: Tropical cirrus–from micro-scale processes to climate-scale impacts

B Gasparini, SC Sullivan, AB Sokol… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Tropical cirrus clouds, ie, any type of ice cloud with tops above 400 hPa, play a critical role in
the climate system and are a major source of uncertainty in our understanding of global …

Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei number, with implications for cloud droplet formation

GS Fanourgakis, M Kanakidou, A Nenes… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
A total of 16 global chemistry transport models and general circulation models have
participated in this study; 14 models have been evaluated with regard to their ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol and physical atmosphere model parameters are both important sources of uncertainty in aerosol ERF

LA Regayre, JS Johnson, M Yoshioka… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Changes in aerosols cause a change in net top-of-the-atmosphere (ToA) short-wave and
long-wave radiative fluxes; rapid adjustments in clouds, water vapour and temperature; and …

Long-term variation of cloud droplet number concentrations from space-based Lidar

J Li, B Jian, J Huang, Y Hu, C Zhao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study presents a new 10 year of liquid water cloud droplet number concentration (N d)
climatology, and analyzes its long-term variation on both regional and global scales based …

Soot PCF: pore condensation and freezing framework for soot aggregates

C Marcolli, F Mahrt, B Kärcher - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric ice formation in cirrus clouds is often initiated by aerosol particles that act as ice-
nucleating particles. The aerosol–cloud interactions of soot and associated feedbacks …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol effects on deep convection: the propagation of aerosol perturbations through convective cloud microphysics

M Heikenfeld, B White, L Labbouz… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of aerosols on ice-and mixed-phase processes in deep convective clouds
remains highly uncertain, and the wide range of interacting microphysical processes is still …

Collocated observations of cloud condensation nuclei, particle size distributions, and chemical composition

J Schmale, S Henning, B Henzing, H Keskinen… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentrations alongside with submicrometer
particle number size distributions and particle chemical composition have been measured at …

Sensitivities of Amazonian clouds to aerosols and updraft speed

MA Cecchini, LAT Machado… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
The effects of aerosol particles and updraft speed on warm-phase cloud microphysical
properties are studied in the Amazon region as part of the ACRIDICON-CHUVA experiment …