Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

J Li, BE Carlson, YL Yung, D Lv, J Hansen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

Scalable sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for causal-effect estimates of continuous-valued interventions

A Jesson, A Douglas, P Manshausen… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating the effects of continuous-valued interventions from observational data is a
critically important task for climate science, healthcare, and economics. Recent work focuses …

Evaluation of liquid cloud albedo susceptibility in E3SM using coupled eastern North Atlantic surface and satellite retrievals

AC Varble, PL Ma, MW Christensen… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of aerosol number concentration on cloud albedo is a persistent source of
spread in global climate predictions due to multi-scale, interactive atmospheric processes …

Aerosol–cloud interactions in the climate system

T Michibata - Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change, 2022 - Springer
Increased anthropogenic aerosol concentrations modify cloud micro-and macrophysical
properties and precipitation, which significantly impacts the global hydrological cycle and …

Distinct structure, radiative effects, and precipitation characteristics of deep convection systems in the Tibetan Plateau compared to the tropical Indian Ocean

Y Zhao, J Li, D Wen, Y Li, Y Wang… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Using spaceborne lidar and radar observations, this study identifies deep convection
systems (DCSs), including deep convection cores (DCCs) and anvils, over the Tibetan …

Evaluation of CESM1 (WACCM) free-running and specified dynamics atmospheric composition simulations using global multispecies satellite data records

L Froidevaux, DE Kinnison, R Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We have analyzed near-global stratospheric data (and mesospheric data as well for H 2 O)
in terms of absolute abundances, variability, and trends for O 3, H 2 O, HCl, N 2 O, and HNO …

Emission reductions significantly reduce the hemispheric contrast in cloud droplet number concentration in recent two decades

Y Cao, Y Zhu, M Wang, D Rosenfeld… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities have drastically impacted the climate system since the Industrial
Revolution. However, to what extent anthropogenic emissions influence the cloud droplet …

Evaluation and comparison of VIIRS dark target and deep blue aerosol products over land

Q Wang, S Li, J Yang, D Zhou - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The dark target (DT) and deep blue (DB) algorithms have been applied to the VIIRS to
construct a long-term climate data recording of atmospheric aerosols. This study provides …

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 …

Reconciling compensating errors between precipitation constraints and the energy budget in a climate model

T Michibata, K Suzuki - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation microphysics and the effective radiative forcing due to aerosol‐cloud
interactions (ERFaci) contribute to some of the largest uncertainties in general circulation …