Tropical, temperate, and boreal forests are critical components of the climate system, and
the ecosystem services they provide are essential for our society (Bonan et al., 1992, Bonan …

Pulses of warm and moist air from lower latitudes provide energy to the Arctic and form its
main energy source outside of the summer months. These pulses can cause substantial …

A key challenge in aerosol pollution studies and climate change assessment is to
understand how atmospheric aerosol particles are initially formed,. Although new particle …

The microphysical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds continue to be beyond
understanding and thus still represent one of the largest uncertainties in the prediction of the …

Trade-wind cumuli constitute the cloud type with the highest frequency of occurrence on
Earth, and it has been shown that their sensitivity to changing environmental conditions will …

Smoke from vegetation fires affects air quality, atmospheric cycling, and the climate in the
Amazon rain forest. A major unknown has remained the quantity of long-range transported …

Airborne observations over the Amazon Basin showed high aerosol particle concentrations
in the upper troposphere (UT) between 8 and 15 km altitude, with number densities …

The large concentrations of ultrafine particles consistently observed at high altitudes over
the tropics represent one of the world's largest aerosol reservoirs, which may be providing a …

Abstract The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment (NAWDEX)
explored the impact of diabatic processes on disturbances of the jet stream and their …

Abstract The Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon 2014–2015
(GoAmazon2014/5) experiment took place around the urban region of Manaus in central …