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Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system

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  • Bjorn Stevens

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, KlimaCampus, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
    University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1565, USA)

  • Graham Feingold

    (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA)

Abstract

Reach for the clouds Atmospheric aerosol particles are crucial to the existence of clouds as we know them. It is thought that the aerosol can affect the ability of clouds to form precipitation and in turn cloudiness. But how, in detail, do clouds — and through them the radiative forcing of the global climate system — depend on the aerosol? Bjorn Stevens and Graham Feingold propose that past difficulties in untangling relationships between the aerosol, clouds and precipitation reflect in part a failure to take into account the many processes that act to buffer cloud and precipitation responses to aerosol perturbations. To counter this, say Stevens and Feingold, research needs to focus on understanding specific regimes of aerosol, cloud and precipitation.

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  • Bjorn Stevens & Graham Feingold, 2009. "Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system," Nature, Nature, vol. 461(7264), pages 607-613, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:461:y:2009:i:7264:d:10.1038_nature08281
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08281
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