Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40
years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the …

A small subset of the atmospheric aerosol population has the ability to induce ice formation
at conditions under which ice would not form without them (heterogeneous ice nucleation) …

Ice particle formation in tropospheric clouds significantly changes cloud radiative and
microphysical properties. Ice nucleation in the troposphere via homogeneous freezing …

Aerosols are a critical factor in the atmospheric hydrological cycle and radiation budget. As a
major agent for clouds to form and a significant attenuator of solar radiation, aerosols affect …

Knowledge of cloud and precipitation formation processes remains incomplete, yet global
precipitation is predominantly produced by clouds containing the ice phase. Ice first forms in …

Aerosols affect the climate system by changing cloud characteristics in many ways. They act
as cloud condensation and ice nuclei, they may inhibit freezing and they could have an …

The Earth's climate is determined by a number of complex connected physical, chemical and
biological processes occurring in the atmosphere, land and ocean. The radiative properties …

A new two-moment stratiform cloud microphysics scheme in a general circulation model is
described. Prognostic variables include cloud droplet and cloud ice mass mixing ratios and …

The microphysical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds continue to be beyond
understanding and thus still represent one of the largest uncertainties in the prediction of the …

This article addresses the need for new data on indirect effects of natural and anthropogenic
aerosol particles on atmospheric ice clouds. Simultaneous measurements of the …