Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening

G Feingold, VP Ghate, LM Russell, P Blossey… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow
marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy …

Ice‐nucleating particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and modeling research needs

SM Burrows, CS McCluskey, G Cornwell… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes,
with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] The COMBLE Campaign: A study of marine boundary layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks

B Geerts, SE Giangrande… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
One of the most intense air mass transformations on Earth happens when cold air flows from
frozen surfaces to much warmer open water in cold-air outbreaks (CAOs), a process …

Southern Ocean solar reflection biases in CMIP6 models linked to cloud phase and vertical structure representations

GV Cesana, T Khadir, H Chepfer… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Over the Southern Ocean (SO, 40° S–70° S), climate models have consistently
underestimated solar reflection. Here we evaluate the relationship between cloud profiles …

High ice-nucleating particle concentrations associated with Arctic haze in springtime cold-air outbreaks

EN Raif, SL Barr, MD Tarn, JB McQuaid… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The global variation in ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations is an important modulator
of the cloud-phase feedback, where the albedo of mixed-phase clouds increases in a …

Influences of recent particle formation on Southern Ocean aerosol variability and low cloud properties

IL McCoy, CS Bretherton, R Wood… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Controls on pristine aerosol over the Southern Ocean (SO) are critical for constraining the
strength of global aerosol indirect forcing. Observations of summertime SO clouds and …

[HTML][HTML] Hemispheric contrasts in ice formation in stratiform mixed-phase clouds: disentangling the role of aerosol and dynamics with ground-based remote sensing

M Radenz, J Bühl, P Seifert, H Baars… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Multi-year ground-based remote-sensing datasets were acquired with the Leipzig Aerosol
and Cloud Remote Observations System (LACROS) at three sites. A highly polluted central …

Cloud‐nucleating particles over the Southern Ocean in a changing climate

CH Twohy, PJ DeMott, LM Russell, DW Toohey… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stratocumulus clouds over the Southern Ocean have fewer droplets and are more likely to
exist in the predominately supercooled phase than clouds at similar temperatures over …

Challenging and improving the simulation of mid‐level mixed‐phase clouds over the high‐latitude Southern Ocean

É Vignon, SP Alexander, PJ DeMott… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate models exhibit major radiative biases over the Southern Ocean owing to a poor
representation of mixed‐phase clouds. This study uses the remote‐sensing dataset from the …