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Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds

Published:2019-02-08 Issue:6427 Volume:363 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Rosenfeld Daniel¹²^ORCID,Zhu Yannian³^ORCID,Wang Minghuai²⁴,Zheng Youtong⁵^ORCID,Goren Tom⁶^ORCID,Yu Shaocai⁷⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.

2. School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China.

3. Meteorological Institute of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, China.

4. Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences and Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, Nanjing University, China.

5. Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

6. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

7. Research Center for Air Pollution and Health; Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China.

8. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91123, USA.

9. Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P.R. China.

Abstract

Reflections on cloud effects How much impact does the abundance of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) aerosols above the oceans have on global temperatures? Rosenfeld et al. analyzed how CCN affect the properties of marine stratocumulus clouds, which reflect much of the solar radiation received by Earth back to space (see the Perspective by Sato and Suzuki). The CCN abundance explained most of the variability in the radiative cooling. Thus, the magnitude of radiative forcing provided by these clouds is much more sensitive to the presence of CCN than current models indicate, which suggests the existence of other compensating warming effects. Science , this issue p. eaav0566 ; see also p. 580

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant

Joint Israel-China Science Foundations

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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