Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric circulation in the present‐day climate and under climate change

A Voigt, N Albern, P Ceppi, K Grise, Y Li… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
By interacting with radiation, clouds modulate the flow of energy through the Earth system,
the circulation of the atmosphere, and regional climate. We review the impact of cloud …

Connections between clouds, radiation, and midlatitude dynamics: A review

P Ceppi, DL Hartmann - Current Climate Change Reports, 2015 - Springer
We review the effects of dynamical variability on clouds and radiation in observations and
models and discuss their implications for cloud feedbacks. Jet shifts produce robust …

Muted extratropical low cloud seasonal cycle is closely linked to underestimated climate sensitivity in models

X Jiang, H Su, JH Jiang, JD Neelin, L Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A large spread in model estimates of the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), defined as the
global mean near-surface air-temperature increase following a doubling of atmospheric …

Covariance between Arctic sea ice and clouds within atmospheric state regimes at the satellite footprint level

PC Taylor, S Kato, KM Xu, M Cai - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the cloud response to sea ice change is necessary for modeling Arctic
climate. Previous work has primarily addressed this problem from the interannual variability …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic cloud annual cycle biases in climate models

PC Taylor, RC Boeke, Y Li… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Arctic clouds exhibit a robust annual cycle with maximum cloudiness in fall and minimum
cloudiness in winter. These variations affect energy flows in the Arctic with a large influence …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of atmospheric cloud radiative effects on the large-scale atmospheric circulation

Y Li, DWJ Thompson, S Bony - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Influence of Atmospheric Cloud Radiative Effects on the Large-Scale Atmospheric
Circulation in: Journal of Climate Volume 28 Issue 18 (2015) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Arctic amplification response to individual climate drivers

CW Stjern, MT Lund, BH Samset… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic is experiencing rapid climate change in response to changes in greenhouse
gases, aerosols, and other climate drivers. Emission changes in general, as well as …

The case for a modern multiwavelength, polarization-sensitive LIDAR in orbit around Mars

AJ Brown, TI Michaels, S Byrne, W Sun, TN Titus… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present the scientific case to build a multiple-wavelength, active, near-infrared (NIR)
instrument to measure the reflected intensity and polarization characteristics of …

Thermodynamic constraint on the depth of the global tropospheric circulation

DWJ Thompson, S Bony, Y Li - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The troposphere is the region of the atmosphere characterized by low static stability,
vigorous diabatic mixing, and widespread condensational heating in clouds. Previous …

[HTML][HTML] On the seasonal and synoptic time-scale variability of the North Atlantic trade wind region and its low-level clouds

M Brueck, L Nuijens, B Stevens - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
On the Seasonal and Synoptic Time-Scale Variability of the North Atlantic Trade Wind Region
and Its Low-Level Clouds in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 72 Issue 4 (2015) …