Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

N Bellouin, J Quaas, E Gryspeerdt… - Reviews of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40
years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing

MW Christensen, A Gettelman, J Cermak… - Atmospheric …, 2022‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) are considered to be the most uncertain driver of present-
day radiative forcing due to human activities. The nonlinearity of cloud-state changes to …

Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics

H Morrison, M van Lier‐Walqui… - Journal of advances …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

Substantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover

Y Chen, J Haywood, Y Wang, F Malavelle… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
With global warming currently standing at approximately+ 1.2° C since pre-industrial times,
climate change is a pressing global issue. Marine cloud brightening is one proposed …

Robust evidence for reversal of the trend in aerosol effective climate forcing

J Quaas, H Jia, C Smith, AL Albright… - Atmospheric …, 2022‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic aerosols exert a cooling influence that offsets part of the greenhouse gas
warming. Due to their short tropospheric lifetime of only several days, the aerosol forcing …

Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol

P Manshausen, D Watson-Parris, MW Christensen… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Cloud reflectivity is sensitive to atmospheric aerosol concentrations because aerosols
provide the condensation nuclei on which water condenses. Increased aerosol …

Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover

Y Chen, J Haywood, Y Wang, F Malavelle… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Aerosol–cloud interactions have a potentially large impact on climate but are poorly
quantified and thus contribute a substantial and long-standing uncertainty in climate …

Detection of large-scale cloud microphysical changes within a major ship** corridor after implementation of the International Maritime Organization 2020 fuel sulfur …

MS Diamond - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023‏ - acp.copernicus.org
New regulations from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) limiting sulfur emissions
from the ship** industry are expected to have large benefits in terms of public health but …

Weak average liquid-cloud-water response to anthropogenic aerosols

V Toll, M Christensen, J Quaas, N Bellouin - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
The cooling of the Earth's climate through the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds
offsets an unknown fraction of greenhouse gas warming. An increase in the amount of water …

Assessing effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions over the global ocean

CJ Wall, JR Norris, A Possner, DT McCoy… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
How clouds respond to anthropogenic sulfate aerosols is one of the largest sources of
uncertainty in the radiative forcing of climate over the industrial era. This uncertainty limits …