Clouds and their climatic impacts : radiation, circulation, and precipitation /
editors Sylvia C. Sullivan, Corinna Hoose.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
1 Science of Cloud and Climate Science: An Analysis of the Literature Over the Past 50 Years 1 Sylvia C. Sullivan and Corinna Hoose
Part I Clouds and Radiation
2 An Overview of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions 15 Hamish Gordon, Franziska Glassmeier, and Daniel McCoy
3 Ice Crystal Complexity and Link to the Cirrus Cloud Radiative Effect 47 Emma Järvinen, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Nathan Magee, Steven Neshyba, Martin Schnaiter, Guanglang Xu, Olivier Jourdan, David Delene, Fritz Waitz, Simone Lolli, and Seiji Kato
4 Cloud-Radiation Interactions and Cloud-Climate Feedbacks From an Active-Sensor Satellite Perspective 87 Grégory V. Cesana, Andrew S. Ackerman, Thibault Vaillant de Guélis, and David S. Henderson
Part II Cloud Types
5 A Review of the Factors Influencing Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds: Progress and Outlook 105 Ivy Tan, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Patrick C. Taylor, Lauren Zamora, and Manfred Wendisch
6 Extratropical Cloud Feedbacks 133 Daniel T. McCoy, Michelle E. Frazer, Johannes Mülmenstädt, Ivy Tan, Christopher R. Terai, and Mark D. Zelinka
7 Tropical Marine Low Clouds: Feedbacks to Warming and on Climate Variability 159 Timothy A. Myers, Raphaela Vogel, Florent Brient, Hossein Parishani, and Ryan C. Scott
8 Mechanisms for the Self-Organization of Tropical Deep Convection 179 Jan O. Haerter and Caroline Muller
9 An Overview of Mesoscale Convective Systems: Global Climatology, Satellite Observations, and Modeling Strategies 195 Sudip Chakraborty, Sylvia C. Sullivan, and Zhe Feng
Part III Clouds and Circulation
10 Interactions Between the Tropical Atmospheric Overturning Circulation and Clouds in Present and Future Climates 225 Kathleen A. Schiro and Hui Su
11 Clouds and Radiatively Induced Circulations 239 Tra Dinh, Blaž Gasparini, and Gilles Bellon
12 The Small-Scale Mixing of Clouds with Their Environment: Impacts on Micro- and Macroscale Cloud Properties 255 Fabian Hoffmann
Part IV Clouds and Precipitation
13 Precipitation Efficiency and Climate Sensitivity 273 Nicholas J. Lutsko, Steven C. Sherwood, and Ming Zhao
14 Observed Scaling of Precipitation Extremes With Surface Temperature and Convective Available Potential Energy 287 Wenhao Dong and Yanluan Lin
15 Satellite Precipitation Measurements: What Have We Learnt About Cloud-Precipitation Processes From Space? 303 Maki Kikuchi, Scott A. Braun, Kentaroh Suzuki, Guosheng Liu, and Alessandro Battaglia
Part V Outlook
16 Machine Learning for Clouds and Climate 327 Tom Beucler, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Stephan Rasp, Michael Pritchard, and Pierre Gentine
Index 347
"Cloud Physics and Dynamics: Role and its Effects in Climate provides a brief overview to basics in each subfield, followed by a discussion of recent advances and remaining open questions along three "axes": radiation, circulation, and precipitation. Clouds are important because they affect the terrestrial radiative budget, reflecting incoming solar radiation and absorbing and reemitting outgoing terrestrial radiation. Then, clouds are not only generated by the global circulation but also feedback on it, for example in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the mid-latitude storm tracks. Finally, changes to clouds mean changes to surface precipitation rates. These themes emphasize the motivations of better climate projections and rainfall forecasts better than traditional layout according to cloud types or modeling versus observational techniques."--
About the Author Sylvia C. Sullivan, University of Arizona, USA, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Corinna Hoose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.