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 …

Low-cloud feedbacks from cloud-controlling factors: A review

SA Klein, A Hall, JR Norris, R Pincus - Shallow clouds, water vapor …, 2018 - Springer
The response to warming of tropical low-level clouds including both marine stratocumulus
and trade cumulus is a major source of uncertainty in projections of future climate. Climate …

Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming

T Schneider, CM Kaul, KG Pressel - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Stratocumulus clouds cover 20% of the low-latitude oceans and are especially prevalent in
the subtropics. They cool the Earth by shading large portions of its surface from sunlight …

Thermodynamic control of anvil cloud amount

S Bony, B Stevens, D Coppin… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
General circulation models show that as the surface temperature increases, the convective
anvil clouds shrink. By analyzing radiative–convective equilibrium simulations, we show that …

Insights into low-latitude cloud feedbacks from high-resolution models

CS Bretherton - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cloud feedbacks are a leading source of uncertainty in the climate sensitivity simulated by
global climate models (GCMs). Low-latitude boundary-layer and cumulus cloud regimes are …

Satellite-based estimate of global aerosol–cloud radiative forcing by marine warm clouds

YC Chen, MW Christensen, GL Stephens… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in aerosol concentrations affect cloud albedo and Earth's radiative
balance. Aerosol radiative forcing from pre-industrial time to the present due to the effect of …

Observed sensitivity of low-cloud radiative effects to meteorological perturbations over the global oceans

RC Scott, TA Myers, JR Norris, MD Zelinka… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding how marine low clouds and their radiative effects respond to changing
meteorological conditions is crucial to constrain low-cloud feedbacks to greenhouse …

Rising trends in heatwave metrics across southern California

GC Hulley, B Dousset, BH Kahn - Earth's Future, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Research on heatwaves has gained significant impetus over the past decade due to a
warming planet and rapid 21st century urbanization. This study examines driving factors …

The influence of extratropical cloud phase and amount feedbacks on climate sensitivity

WR Frey, JE Kay - Climate dynamics, 2018 - Springer
Global coupled climate models have large long-standing cloud and radiation biases, calling
into question their ability to simulate climate and climate change. This study assesses the …

Low cloud reduction in a greenhouse‐warmed climate: Results from Lagrangian LES of a subtropical marine cloudiness transition

CS Bretherton, PN Blossey - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lagrangian large‐eddy simulations of a composite stratocumulus to cumulus transition case
over the subtropical northeast Pacific Ocean are subject to perturbed forcings that isolate the …