Data assimilation in atmospheric chemistry models: current status and future prospects for coupled chemistry meteorology models

M Bocquet, H Elbern, H Eskes, M Hirtl… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Data assimilation is used in atmospheric chemistry models to improve air quality forecasts,
construct re-analyses of three-dimensional chemical (including aerosol) concentrations and …

CERES MODIS cloud product retrievals for edition 4—Part I: Algorithm changes

P Minnis, S Sun-Mack, Y Chen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Edition 2 (Ed2) cloud property retrieval algorithm system was upgraded and applied to
the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for the Clouds and the …

The hemispheric contrast in cloud microphysical properties constrains aerosol forcing

IL McCoy, DT McCoy, R Wood… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The change in planetary albedo due to aerosol− cloud interactions during the industrial era
is the leading source of uncertainty in inferring Earth's climate sensitivity to increased …

Cloud adjustments from large-scale smoke-circulation interactions strongly modulate the southeast Atlantic stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition

MS Diamond, PE Saide, P Zuidema… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Smoke from southern Africa blankets the southeast Atlantic Ocean from June–October,
producing strong and competing aerosol radiative effects. Smoke effects on the transition …

Time-dependent entrainment of smoke presents an observational challenge for assessing aerosol–cloud interactions over the southeast Atlantic Ocean

MS Diamond, A Dobracki, S Freitag… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The colocation of clouds and smoke over the southeast Atlantic Ocean during the southern
African biomass burning season has numerous radiative implications, including …

Satellites see the world's atmosphere

SA Ackerman, S Platnick, PK Bhartia… - Meteorological …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Satellite meteorology is a relatively new branch of the atmospheric sciences. The field
emerged in the late 1950s during the Cold War and built on the advances in rocketry after …

[HTML][HTML] The relative importance of macrophysical and cloud albedo changes for aerosol-induced radiative effects in closed-cell stratocumulus: insight from the …

DP Grosvenor, PR Field, AA Hill… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions are explored using 1 km simulations of a case study of
predominantly closed-cell SE Pacific stratocumulus clouds. The simulations include realistic …

[HTML][HTML] Large-eddy simulations of marine boundary layer clouds associated with cold-air outbreaks during the ACTIVATE campaign. Part I: Case setup and …

XY Li, H Wang, J Chen, S Endo… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Large-eddy simulation (LES) is able to capture key boundary layer (BL) turbulence and
cloud processes. Yet, large-scale forcing and surface turbulent fluxes of sensible and latent …

Evaluation of satellite retrievals of liquid clouds from the GOES-13 imager and MODIS over the midlatitude North Atlantic during the NAAMES campaign

D Painemal, D Spangenberg… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Satellite retrievals of cloud droplet effective radius (re) and optical depth (τ) from the
Thirteenth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-13) and the Moderate …

The relationships between cloud top radiative cooling rates, surface latent heat fluxes, and cloud‐base heights in marine stratocumulus

Y Zheng, D Rosenfeld, Z Li - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud top radiative cooling (CTRC) drives turbulence in marine boundary layers (MBLs)
topped by stratocumulus clouds. This study examines the role of CTRC in regulating the …