- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
-
1 Introduction -
2 Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth’s Radiation Budget -
3 Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols -
4 Cloud Properties from In-situ and Remote-sensing Measurements -
5 Clouds and Precipitation -
6 Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols -
7 Laboratory Cloud Simulation -
8 Cloud-controlling Factors -
9 Deep Convective Clouds -
10 Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness -
11 Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus -
12 Cloud-controlling Factors -
13 Cloud Particle Precursors -
14 Cloud–Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale -
15 Weather and Climate Engineering -
16 Air Pollution and Precipitation -
17 What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget? -
18 The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic Perturbations of Clouds -
19 Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by Aerosols -
20 Simulating Global Clouds -
21 Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale -
22 Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes -
23 Aerosols and Clouds in Chemical Transport Models and Climate Models -
24 Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties - Abbreviations
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties
Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties
- Chapter:
- (p.557) 24 Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties
- Source:
- Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System
- Author(s):
Rapporteur Johannes Quaas
Sandrine Bony
William D. Collins
Leo Donner
Anthony Illingworth
Andy Jones
Ulrike Lohmann
Masaki Satoh
Stephen E. Schwartz
Wei-Kuo Tao
Robert Wood
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter emphasizes the apparent lack of progress in quantifying feedbacks between clouds and climate. It examines cloud aspects critical for quantifying aerosol indirect effects, which include cloud albedo, boundary layer moisture budget, cloud subgrid-scale variability, and microphysical processes in ice and mixed-phase clouds. The chapter also discusses the radiative flux perturbation as an alternative approach for the assessment of greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings.
Keywords: clouds, climate, aerosol, cloud albedo, moisture budget, ice clouds, mixed-phase clouds, radiative flux perturbation, greenhouse gas
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- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
-
1 Introduction -
2 Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth’s Radiation Budget -
3 Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols -
4 Cloud Properties from In-situ and Remote-sensing Measurements -
5 Clouds and Precipitation -
6 Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols -
7 Laboratory Cloud Simulation -
8 Cloud-controlling Factors -
9 Deep Convective Clouds -
10 Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness -
11 Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus -
12 Cloud-controlling Factors -
13 Cloud Particle Precursors -
14 Cloud–Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale -
15 Weather and Climate Engineering -
16 Air Pollution and Precipitation -
17 What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget? -
18 The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic Perturbations of Clouds -
19 Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by Aerosols -
20 Simulating Global Clouds -
21 Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale -
22 Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes -
23 Aerosols and Clouds in Chemical Transport Models and Climate Models -
24 Current Understanding and Quantification of Clouds in the Changing Climate System and Strategies for Reducing Critical Uncertainties - Abbreviations
- Name Index
- Subject Index
