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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

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 …

Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path

E Gryspeerdt, T Goren, O Sourdeval… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of aerosols on cloud properties is one of the largest uncertainties in the
anthropogenic radiative forcing of the climate. Significant progress has been made in …

Aerosols enhance cloud lifetime and brightness along the stratus-to-cumulus transition

MW Christensen, WK Jones, P Stier - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 - pnas.org
Anthropogenic aerosols are hypothesized to enhance planetary albedo and offset some of
the warming due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. Aerosols can …

Aerosol microdroplets exhibit a stable pH gradient

H Wei, EP Vejerano, W Leng, Q Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Suspended aqueous aerosol droplets (< 50 µm) are microreactors for many important
atmospheric reactions. In droplets and other aquatic environments, pH is arguably the key …

Observational evidence of strong forcing from aerosol effect on low cloud coverage

T Yuan, H Song, R Wood, L Oreopoulos, S Platnick… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Aerosols cool Earth's climate indirectly by increasing low cloud brightness and their
coverage (Cf), constituting the aerosol indirect forcing (AIF). The forcing partially offsets the …

The radiative forcing of aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid clouds: Wrestling and embracing uncertainty

J Mülmenstädt, G Feingold - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
This article discusses some of the challenges that have limited progress in quantifying the
radiative forcing associated with aerosol–cloud interactions (ACI) in warm (liquid-water) …