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Radiation: transmission and scattering

Posted inResearch Spotlights

模拟火山碎屑云

by Sarah Derouin 22 July 202128 September 2021

巨大的火山云是如何进入平流层的?科学家们模拟了注入平流层低层的火山碎片是如何被抬升进入平流层中层的。

Plot showing average temperature change over California caused by reductions in airborne particle concentrations
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Comparing Impacts of CO2 and Particle Emission Reductions

by L. Russell 11 November 20209 November 2020

Black carbon contained in airborne particles is often cited as a major factor warming the climate, but how much can California reduce climate change through reducing airborne particle concentrations?

Researchers integrate multiple data sources to better understand how aerosols might impact global climate.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Satellite Data Reveal Effects of Aerosols in Earth's Atmosphere

by Sarah Stanley 24 March 2017

Combining data from multiple sources could aid in predicting the tiny atmospheric particles' effects on global warming.

Light filters through broken clouds; cloud complexity is difficult to represent in weather and climate models
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Incorporating 3-D Cloud Effects into Weather and Climate Models

by Kate Wheeling 30 August 2016

Researchers explain how a new radiative scheme can be incorporated into global weather and climate models to better capture the effect of clouds on climate.

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Insights into Long-Standing Bias in Cloud Property Retrieval

by David Shultz 28 June 2016

A new framework provides a more comprehensive view of how subpixel variations can create biases in a commonly used method of analyzing cloud properties with satellites.

A wave of mixed-phase clouds composed of ice and supercooled liquid water brushes the peaks of Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps.
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Icy Clouds May Counter Climate Warming Less Than Expected

by E. Deatrick 13 April 201610 May 2016

A new analysis of cloud composition and behavior suggests that scientists have overestimated the ability of a type of mixed-phase ice-and-water cloud to mitigate climate change effects.

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