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Aerosol effects on clouds are concealed by natural cloud heterogeneity and satellite retrieval errors

Authors :
Antti Arola
Antti Lipponen
Pekka Kolmonen
Timo H. Virtanen
Nicolas Bellouin
Daniel P. Grosvenor
Edward Gryspeerdt
Johannes Quaas
Harri Kokkola
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2022.

Abstract

The authors showed that previous analyses which have estimated that the cloud water content decreases with increasing number of cloud droplets may have a negative bias due to variability in satellite data, thus underestimating aerosol-cloud-climate cooling.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
13
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.4aa9a68a2e54580a7b033097e97b08c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34948-5