- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
- 1Introduction
- 2Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth’s Radiation Budget
- 3Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols
- 4 Cloud Properties from <i>In-situ</i> and Remote-sensing Measurements
- 5Clouds and Precipitation
- 6Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols
- 7Laboratory Cloud Simulation
- 8Cloud-controlling Factors
- 9 Deep Convective Clouds
- 10Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness
- 11Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus
- 12Cloud-controlling Factors
- 13Cloud Particle Precursors
- 14Cloud–Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale
- 15Weather and Climate Engineering
- 16Air Pollution and Precipitation
- 17What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget?
- 18The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic Perturbations of Clouds
- 19Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by Aerosols
- 20Simulating Global Clouds
- 21Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale
- 22Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes
- 23Aerosols 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
Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols
Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols
Theodore L. Anderson, Rapporteur
- Chapter:
- 6 (p.127) Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols
- Source:
- Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System
- Author(s):
Andrew Ackerman
Dennis L. Hartmann
George A. Isaac
Stefan Kinne
Hirohiko Masunaga
Joel R. Norris
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl
K. Sebastian Schmidt
Anthony Slingo
Anthony Yukari N.
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter examines aerosol–cloud relationships, focusing on the temporal and spatial variability of clouds and aerosols. It first describes the strategies for separating aerosol and meteorological effects on clouds. The chapter then assesses the potential large-scale aerosol impacts on cloud albedo, cloud amount, and precipitation by looking at long-term trends in cloudiness in regions that have experienced long-term trends in aerosols. It also emphasizes the need to investigate cloud changes that are likely associated with global warming and the need to devise new strategies to observe key variables for understanding perturbed clouds in the climate system.
Keywords: clouds, aerosols, cloud albedo, cloud amount, precipitation, cloudiness, global warming, perturbed clouds
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- Title Pages
- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum
- List of Contributors
- 1Introduction
- 2Trends in Observed Cloudiness and Earth’s Radiation Budget
- 3Climatologies of Cloud-related Aerosols
- 4 Cloud Properties from <i>In-situ</i> and Remote-sensing Measurements
- 5Clouds and Precipitation
- 6Temporal and Spatial Variability of Clouds and Related Aerosols
- 7Laboratory Cloud Simulation
- 8Cloud-controlling Factors
- 9 Deep Convective Clouds
- 10Large-scale Controls on Cloudiness
- 11Cloud-controlling Factors of Cirrus
- 12Cloud-controlling Factors
- 13Cloud Particle Precursors
- 14Cloud–Aerosol Interactions from the Micro to the Cloud Scale
- 15Weather and Climate Engineering
- 16Air Pollution and Precipitation
- 17What Do We Know about Large-scale Changes of Aerosols, Clouds, and the Radiation Budget?
- 18The Extent and Nature of Anthropogenic Perturbations of Clouds
- 19Global Indirect Radiative Forcing Caused by Aerosols
- 20Simulating Global Clouds
- 21Observational Strategies from the Micro- to Mesoscale
- 22Observational Strategies at Meso- and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Cloud Changes
- 23Aerosols 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
