Remote sensing of droplet number concentration in warm clouds: A review of the current state of knowledge and perspectives

DP Grosvenor, O Sourdeval, P Zuidema… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The cloud droplet number concentration (N d) is of central interest to improve the
understanding of cloud physics and for quantifying the effective radiative forcing by aerosol …

Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

[HTML][HTML] Stratocumulus clouds

R Wood - Monthly Weather Review, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Stratocumulus Clouds in: Monthly Weather Review Volume 140 Issue 8 (2012) Jump to
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[图书][B] Climate intervention: Reflecting sunlight to cool earth

National Research Council, Division on Earth… - 2015 - books.google.com
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate
destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem …

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 …

The VAMOS ocean-cloud-atmosphere-land study regional experiment (VOCALS-REx): Goals, platforms, and field operations

R Wood, CR Mechoso, CS Bretherton… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
The VAMOS 1 Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx)
was an international field program designed to make observations of poorly understood but …

Assessment of MODIS cloud effective radius and optical thickness retrievals over the Southeast Pacific with VOCALS‐REx in situ measurements

D Painemal, P Zuidema - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud microphysical observations collected in situ during the VAMOS Ocean‐Cloud‐
Atmosphere‐Land Study Regional Experiment within the Chile‐Peru stratocumulus cloud …

Marine cloud brightening

J Latham, K Bower, T Choularton… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The idea behind the marine cloud-brightening (MCB) geoengineering technique is that
seeding marine stratocumulus clouds with copious quantities of roughly monodisperse sub …

[HTML][HTML] Significant improvement of cloud representation in the global climate model MRI-ESM2

H Kawai, S Yukimoto, T Koshiro… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The development of the climate model MRI-ESM2 (Meteorological Research Institute Earth
System Model version 2), which is planned for use in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the potential efficacy of marine cloud brightening for cooling Earth using a simple heuristic model

R Wood - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
A simple heuristic model is described to assess the potential for increasing solar reflection
by augmenting the aerosol population below marine low clouds, which nominally leads to …