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The Radiative Forcing of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Liquid Clouds: Wrestling and Embracing Uncertainty
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2018
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Source: Current Climate Change Reports, 4(1), 23-40
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Journal Title:Current Climate Change Reports
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Description: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) clouds. It reviews recent progress and suggests new ways of viewing the problem that might accelerate progress. It calls for much greater attention to the scale problem, both in terms of aerosol–cloud process representation in models and comparison with observations. It suggests careful consideration of the balance in detail with which processes are represented, and proposes a merging of detailed process understanding and system-wide behavior. In this spirit, it advocates tackling the problem with models of varying complexity that consider both the depth and breadth of the complex dynamical system. Finally, it considers shifting attention from untangling aerosol and meteorological effects on cloud systems towards understanding the co-variability of key aerosol and meteorological drivers of cloud systems.
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Source:Current Climate Change Reports, 4(1), 23-40
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ISSN:2198-6061
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