Anthony Illingworth and Sandrine Bony
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012874
- eISBN:
- 9780262255448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012874.003.0022
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter discusses the meso- and large observational strategies to reduce critical uncertainties in future cloud changes. It first discusses the key aspects of cloud simulations in large-scale ...
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This chapter discusses the meso- and large observational strategies to reduce critical uncertainties in future cloud changes. It first discusses the key aspects of cloud simulations in large-scale models and their impact on climate, and then discusses the evaluation of cloud properties simulated by large-scale models with ground-based data and satellite data. The cloud-climate metrics to assess the relative reliability of climate change–cloud feedbacks are also explored.Less
This chapter discusses the meso- and large observational strategies to reduce critical uncertainties in future cloud changes. It first discusses the key aspects of cloud simulations in large-scale models and their impact on climate, and then discusses the evaluation of cloud properties simulated by large-scale models with ground-based data and satellite data. The cloud-climate metrics to assess the relative reliability of climate change–cloud feedbacks are also explored.
Frank Stratmann, Ottmar Möhler, Raymond Shaw, and Wex Heike
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012874
- eISBN:
- 9780262255448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012874.003.0007
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter discusses the laboratory methods, instruments, and facilities used to investigate and simulate cloud physical processes, which include aerosol particle hygroscopic growth and activation, ...
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This chapter discusses the laboratory methods, instruments, and facilities used to investigate and simulate cloud physical processes, which include aerosol particle hygroscopic growth and activation, droplet dynamic growth, ice nucleation, droplet freezing, and droplet–turbulence interactions. It also offers suggestions for future research topics and facilities in-laboratory cloud simulation.Less
This chapter discusses the laboratory methods, instruments, and facilities used to investigate and simulate cloud physical processes, which include aerosol particle hygroscopic growth and activation, droplet dynamic growth, ice nucleation, droplet freezing, and droplet–turbulence interactions. It also offers suggestions for future research topics and facilities in-laboratory cloud simulation.
Wojciech W. Grabowski and Jon C. Petch
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012874
- eISBN:
- 9780262255448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012874.003.0009
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter assesses the effects of deep convective clouds in the perturbed climate system. To understand the role of deep convection in the climate system, model simulations are required across all ...
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This chapter assesses the effects of deep convective clouds in the perturbed climate system. To understand the role of deep convection in the climate system, model simulations are required across all scales. These models include large eddy simulation models, cloud models, or cloud system-resolving models (CSRMs). The chapter discusses the limitations of current cloud simulations and observational approaches, and also offers suggestions for future research.Less
This chapter assesses the effects of deep convective clouds in the perturbed climate system. To understand the role of deep convection in the climate system, model simulations are required across all scales. These models include large eddy simulation models, cloud models, or cloud system-resolving models (CSRMs). The chapter discusses the limitations of current cloud simulations and observational approaches, and also offers suggestions for future research.
Joel R. Norris and Anthony Slingo
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012874
- eISBN:
- 9780262255448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012874.003.0002
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter investigates variations in cloudiness and changes in the Earth’s radiation budget (ERB), including their connection with other parameters of the climate system. Anthropogenic aerosol ...
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This chapter investigates variations in cloudiness and changes in the Earth’s radiation budget (ERB), including their connection with other parameters of the climate system. Anthropogenic aerosol emissions cause a perturbation to the physical and radiative properties of clouds. The chapter examines the radiative impacts of anthropogenic aerosol emissions on cloudiness, and also indicates the importance of small cloud and ERB changes and the difficulties encountered in measuring them. Cloud simulation and climate sensitivity observed in global climate models are discussed as well.Less
This chapter investigates variations in cloudiness and changes in the Earth’s radiation budget (ERB), including their connection with other parameters of the climate system. Anthropogenic aerosol emissions cause a perturbation to the physical and radiative properties of clouds. The chapter examines the radiative impacts of anthropogenic aerosol emissions on cloudiness, and also indicates the importance of small cloud and ERB changes and the difficulties encountered in measuring them. Cloud simulation and climate sensitivity observed in global climate models are discussed as well.
