Frontiers in Satellite‐Based Estimates of Cloud‐Mediated Aerosol Forcing

D Rosenfeld, A Kokhanovsky, T Goren… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric aerosols affect the Earth's climate in many ways, including acting as the seeds
on which cloud droplets form. Since a large fraction of these particles is anthropogenic, the …

General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path

J Mülmenstädt, E Gryspeerdt, S Dipu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
General circulation models'(GCMs) estimates of the liquid water path adjustment to
anthropogenic aerosol emissions differ in sign from other lines of evidence. This reduces …

Constraining effects of aerosol-cloud interaction by accounting for coupling between cloud and land surface

T Su, Z Li, NR Henao, Q Luan, F Yu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACIs) are vital for regulating Earth's climate by influencing
energy and water cycles. Yet, effects of ACI bear large uncertainties, evidenced by …

Biomass burning in critical fire region over the Maritime Continent from 2012 to 2021: A review of the meteorological influence and cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions

JHW Chang, YJ Wong, MCG Ooi, SR Babu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) greatly impacts the Maritime Continent through various mechanisms
including agricultural burning, land clearing and natural response to drought. The dynamic …

Cloud water adjustments to aerosol perturbations are buffered by solar heating in non-precipitating marine stratocumuli

J Zhang, YS Chen, T Yamaguchi… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Marine low-level clouds are key to the Earth's energy budget due to their expansive
coverage over global oceans and their high reflectance of incoming solar radiation. Their …

Stratocumulus adjustments to aerosol perturbations disentangled with a causal approach

E Fons, J Runge, D Neubauer… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
A large fraction of the uncertainty around future global warming is due to the cooling effect of
aerosol-liquid cloud interactions, and in particular to the elusive sign of liquid water path …

Daytime variation in the aerosol indirect effect for warm marine boundary layer clouds in the eastern North Atlantic

S Qiu, X Zheng, D Painemal, CR Terai… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Warm boundary layer clouds in the eastern North Atlantic region exhibit significant diurnal
variations in cloud properties. However, the diurnal cycle of the aerosol indirect effect (AIE) …

Diurnal patterns in the observed cloud liquid water path response to droplet number perturbations

KM Smalley, MD Lebsock… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A key uncertainty in Aerosol‐cloud interactions is the cloud liquid water path (LWP)
response to increased aerosols (λ). LWP can either increase due to precipitation …

2D signal estimation for sparse distributed target photon counting data

M Hayman, RA Stillwell, J Carnes, GJ Kirchhoff… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In this study, we explore the utilization of penalized likelihood estimation for the analysis of
sparse photon counting data obtained from distributed target lidar systems. Specifically, we …

Impacts of mesoscale cloud organization on aerosol‐induced cloud water adjustment and cloud brightness

X Zhou, G Feingold - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The role of mesoscale cellular convection (MCC) in regulating aerosol‐induced cloud
brightness remains unaddressed. Using 7 years of satellite‐based observations of cloud …