Cloud-top entrainment in stratocumulus clouds

JP Mellado - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Cloud entrainment, the mixing between cloudy and clear air at the boundary of clouds,
constitutes one paradigm for the relevance of small scales in the Earth system: By regulating …

The change in low cloud cover in a warmed climate inferred from AIRS, MODIS, and ERA-Interim

DT McCoy, R Eastman, DL Hartmann… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Decreases in subtropical low cloud cover (LCC) occur in climate model simulations of global
warming. In this study 8-day-averaged observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging …

The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback

MJ Webb, AP Lock, CS Bretherton… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We investigate the sensitivity of cloud feedbacks to the use of convective parametrizations
by repeating the CMIP5/CFMIP-2 AMIP/AMIP+ 4K uniform sea surface temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Diurnal cycle of the semi-direct effect from a persistent absorbing aerosol layer over marine stratocumulus in large-eddy simulations

RJ Herbert, N Bellouin, EJ Highwood… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The rapid adjustment, or semi-direct effect, of marine stratocumulus clouds to elevated
layers of absorbing aerosols may enhance or dampen the radiative effect of aerosol …

An LES model study of the influence of the free tropospheric thermodynamic conditions on the stratocumulus response to a climate perturbation

JJ Van der Dussen, SR De Roode… - Journal of Advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐five large‐eddy simulations are performed to study how free tropospheric
thermodynamic conditions control equilibrium state solutions of stratocumulus‐topped …

Fast and slow microphysics regimes in a minimalist model of cloudy Rayleigh-Bénard convection

RA Shaw, S Thomas, P Prabhakaran, W Cantrell… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
A minimalist model of microphysical properties in cloudy Rayleigh-Bénard convection is
developed based on mass and number balances for cloud droplets growing by vapor …

Quantifying cloud adjustments and the radiative forcing due to aerosol–cloud interactions in satellite observations of warm marine clouds

A Douglas, T L'Ecuyer - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol–cloud interactions and their resultant forcing remains one of the largest sources of
uncertainty in future climate scenarios. The effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–cloud …

Quantifying variations in shortwave aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions using local meteorology and cloud state constraints

A Douglas, T L'Ecuyer - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
While many studies have tried to quantify the sign and the magnitude of the warm marine
cloud response to aerosol loading, both remain uncertain, owing to the multitude of factors …

Robustness, uncertainties, and emergent constraints in the radiative responses of stratocumulus cloud regimes to future warming

Y Tsushima, MA Ringer, T Koshiro, H Kawai… - Climate dynamics, 2016 - Springer
Future responses of cloud regimes are analyzed for five CMIP5 models forced with observed
SSTs and subject to a patterned SST perturbation. Correlations between cloud properties in …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-learning-driven simulations of boundary layer clouds over the Southern Great Plains

T Su, Y Zhang - Geoscientific Model Development, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Based on long-term observations at the Southern Great Plains site by the Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) program for training and validation, a deep-learning model …