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TWOMEY EFFECT IN SUBTROPICAL STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS FROM UV DEPOLARIZATION LIDAR

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2018
Marine stratocumulus clouds are important climate regulators, reflecting sunlight over a dark ocean background. A UV-depolarization lidar on Ascension, a small remote island in the south Atlantic, measured cloud droplet sizes and number concentration ...
de Graaf Martin, Brown Jessica, Donovan David   +2 more
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Emergent constraints on future projections of the western North Pacific Subtropical High

Nature Communications, 2020
Model biases and internal variability are a cause for uncertainties in climate projections. Here, the authors show that 45% of projected uncertainty in the western Pacific Subtropical High can be reduced by correcting sea surface temperature biases in ...
Xiaolong Chen, Tianjun Zhou, Peili Wu, Zhun Guo, Minghuai Wang   +4 more
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The potential impact of model horizontal resolution on the simulation of atmospheric cloud radiative effect in CMIP6 models

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2022
Key points 1. Simulations of atmospheric cloud-radiative effect (ACRE) in 54 CMIP6 models are evaluated against the satellite-based observational data. 2. The performance of ACRE simulations is sensitive to the model horizontal resolution used. 3.
Qiao-Jun Lin, Jia-Yuh Yu
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Low Cloud Dispersion Effects by Anthropogenic Aerosols in Polluted Air

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Abstract Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACI) are a major source of uncertainty in anthropogenic climate forcing. Anthropogenic aerosols modulate the cloud albedo by impacting the relative dispersion (ε) of cloud droplet size distributions (CDSDs), known as the dispersion effect.
Xiaomi Teng, Liang Xu, Fan Zhang, Yihan Cheng, Min Gao, Xiyao Chen, Jiefeng Li, Shengzhen Zhou, Shoujuan Shu, Shupeng Zhu, Dantong Liu, Chuanfeng Zhao, Joseph Ching, Weijun Li   +13 more
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Evaluation of an entraining droplet activation parameterization using in situ cloud data [PDF]

, 2011
This study investigates the ability of a droplet activation parameterization (which considers the effects of entrainment and mixing) to reproduce observed cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) in ambient clouds.
A. Nenes, Abdul-Razzak, Arabas, Baker, Barahona, Barahona, Barahona, Burnet, Chosson, Conant, de Rooy, Fountoukis, Fountoukis, H. Jonsson, Hsieh, Hsieh, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, J. H. Seinfeld, Khairoutdinov, Kim, Krueger, Kumar, Lasher-Trapp, Latham, Leaitch, Lehmann, Liu, Lohmann, Lu, Meskhidze, Ming, Morales, Morrison, Nenes, Peng, Pruppacher, R. C. Flagan, R. Morales, Stevens, Tiedtke, Twomey, VanReken, Warner, Warner   +43 more
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Understanding changes in cloud simulations from E3SM version 1 to version 2 [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development
This study documents clouds simulated by the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) version 2 (E3SMv2) and attempts to understand what causes the model behavior change in clouds relative to E3SMv1. This is done by analyzing the last 30-year (1985–2014)
Y. Zhang, S. Xie, Y. Qin, W. Lin, J.-C. Golaz, X. Zheng, P.-L. Ma, Y. Qian, Q. Tang, C. R. Terai, M. Zhang   +10 more
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Kernel‐Based Estimation of Stratospheric Aerosol Radiative Effects From Volcanic and Wildfire Events

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Abstract To facilitate the quantification of the stratospheric aerosol direct radiative effect (ARE), this study develops a suite of aerosol kernels based on Modern‐Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 reanalysis data. The kernels comprise a five‐dimensional data set that includes latitude, longitude, time, wavelength ...
Qiurun Yu, Yi Huang
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Relationship between drizzle rate, liquid water path and droplet concentration at the scale of a stratocumulus cloud system [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2008
The recent ACE-2, EPIC and DYCOMS-II field experiments showed that the drizzle precipitation rate of marine stratocumulus scales with the cloud geometrical thickness or liquid water path, and the droplet concentration, when averaged over a domain typical
O. Geoffroy, J.-L. Brenguier, I. Sandu
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Impact on the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition of the interaction of cloud microphysics and macrophysics with large-scale circulation [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
This study examines the impact of the interaction of cloud microphysics and macrophysics with the large-scale circulation on the stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition (SCT) using a large-eddy simulation (LES) combined with weak-temperature-gradient (WTG ...
J.-Y. Chun, R. Wood, P. N. Blossey, S. J. Doherty, S. J. Doherty   +4 more
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Biases in Southern Ocean Precipitation From Shallow Convection: The Role of Cloud Morphology

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
Abstract Precipitation from marine boundary layer clouds is a critical yet highly uncertain feature of post‐frontal conditions over the Southern Ocean (SO), where shallow convection dominates. This study evaluates whether satellite retrievals (GPM‐IMERG and CloudSat) and reanalysis (ERA5) represent the contrasting precipitation between open and closed ...
T. Alinejadtabrizi, Y. Huang, F. Lang, A. V. Sreenath, C. Poulsen, S. Siems, P. May   +6 more
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