Evaluating cloud feedback components in observations and their representation in climate models

LW Chao, MD Zelinka… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study quantifies the contribution of individual cloud feedbacks to the total short‐term
cloud feedback in satellite observations over the period 2002–2014 and evaluates how they …

Observation and reanalysis derived relationships between cloud and land surface fluxes across cumulus and stratiform coupling over the Southern Great Plains

T Su, Z Li, Y Zhang, Y Zheng… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding interactions between low clouds and land surface fluxes is critical to
comprehending Earth's energy balance, yet their relationships remain elusive, with …

Derivation of shortwave radiometric adjustments for SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS for the NASA MODIS-VIIRS continuity cloud products

K Meyer, S Platnick, R Holz, S Dutcher, G Quinn… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate studies, including trend detection and other time series analyses, necessarily
require stable, well-characterized and long-term data records. For satellite-based …

Observational evidence against strongly stabilizing tropical cloud feedbacks

IN Williams, RT Pierrehumbert - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a method to attribute cloud radiative feedbacks to convective processes, using
subcloud layer buoyancy as a diagnostic of stable and deep convective regimes. Applying …

Decadal stability and trends in the global cloud amount and cloud top temperature in the satellite-based climate data records

A Devasthale, KG Karlsson - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forty years of cloud observations are available globally from satellites, allowing derivation of
climate data records (CDRs) for climate change studies. The aim of this study is to …

Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO

GL Stephens, MZ Hakuba, MJ Webb… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides observational evidence for feedbacks that amplify the short‐term
hydrological response associated with the warm phase of the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation …

A comparison of Aqua MODIS ice and liquid water cloud physical and optical properties between collection 6 and collection 5.1: Cloud radiative effects

B Yi, AD Rapp, P Yang, BA Baum… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In our companion study, we show how cloud property products change from MODIS
(Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) collection 5.1 (C51) to collection 6 (C6) …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of the low-cloud response to poleward jet shifts in the North Pacific in observations and models

MD Zelinka, KM Grise, SA Klein, C Zhou… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Drivers of the Low-Cloud Response to Poleward Jet Shifts in the North Pacific in
Observations and Models in: Journal of Climate Volume 31 Issue 19 (2018) Jump to …

An assessment of short-term global and East Asian local climate feedbacks using new radiative kernels

F Wang, H Zhang, Q Wang, B Xie, X Zhou, Q Liu - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
This study estimates short-term climate feedbacks by using a new set of radiative kernels
applied to observations and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) …

The link between outgoing longwave radiation and the altitude at which a spaceborne lidar beam is fully attenuated

T Vaillant de Guélis, H Chepfer, V Noel… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - amt.copernicus.org
According to climate model simulations, the changing altitude of middle and high clouds is
the dominant contributor to the positive global mean longwave cloud feedback …