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 …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

The MODIS cloud optical and microphysical products: Collection 6 updates and examples from Terra and Aqua

S Platnick, KG Meyer, MD King, G Wind… - … on Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) level-2 (L2) cloud product
(earth science data set names MOD06 and MYD06 for Terra and Aqua MODIS, respectively) …

Global atmospheric downward longwave radiation at the surface from ground‐based observations, satellite retrievals, and reanalyses

K Wang, RE Dickinson - Reviews of Geophysics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric downward longwave radiation at the surface (Ld) varies with increasing CO2
and other greenhouse gases. This study quantifies the uncertainties of current estimates of …

Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity

TA Myers, RC Scott, MD Zelinka, SA Klein… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine low clouds strongly cool the planet. How this cooling effect will respond to climate
change is a leading source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity, the planetary warming …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of global cloud datasets from satellites: Project and database initiated by the GEWEX radiation panel

CJ Stubenrauch, WB Rossow, S Kinne… - Bulletin of the …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Assessment of Global Cloud Datasets from Satellites: Project and Database Initiated by the
GEWEX Radiation Panel in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 94 Issue 7 …

Spatial and temporal distribution of clouds observed by MODIS onboard the Terra and Aqua satellites

MD King, S Platnick, WP Menzel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud properties have been retrieved from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over 12 years of continuous observations from Terra and over …

The GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM4. 0/LM4. 0: 1. Simulation characteristics with prescribed SSTs

M Zhao, JC Golaz, IM Held, H Guo… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this two‐part paper, a description is provided of a version of the AM4. 0/LM4. 0
atmosphere/land model that will serve as a base for a new set of climate and Earth system …

The cloud feedback model intercomparison project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6

MJ Webb, T Andrews, A Bodas-Salcedo… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
The primary objective of CFMIP is to inform future assessments of cloud feedbacks through
improved understanding of cloud–climate feedback mechanisms and better evaluation of …

General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path

J Mülmenstädt, E Gryspeerdt, S Dipu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
General circulation models'(GCMs) estimates of the liquid water path adjustment to
anthropogenic aerosol emissions differ in sign from other lines of evidence. This reduces …