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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cloud feedbacks"”.
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An Investigation Of Cloud Processes Relevant To Climate Sensitivity
… on the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, cloud feedbacks are the largest source of uncertainty in predicting the Earth's climate response to CO2 radiative forcing. Various global climate models estimate that this response amplifies the initial CO2 forcing by a factor between 2 and 5. The …
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The impact of Arctic cloud water and ice on cloud radiative forcing during the Arctic Summer Cloud-Ocean Study in August 2008
… climate forcing; however, Arctic processes and feedbacks are not understood well enough to accurately predict how the Arctic environment might change under anthropogenic forcing. Further study of the basic atmospheric processes is needed, especially due to uncertainties in modeling cloud …
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Interactions between clouds and atmospheric circulation in the extratropics
In climate models, the simulation of clouds is known to be particularly problematic, leading to important biases in the climatological energy balance on regional scales, as well as to large uncertainties in the future amount of warming in response to greenhouse gas increase. This thesis explores …
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Single-column and mixed-layer model analysis of subtropical stratocumulus response mechanisms relevant to climate change
Subtropical stratocumulus clouds are important part of the Earth's energy budget. The response of low clouds to Earth's changing climate is one of the dominant uncertainties in global warming projections, due primarily to unresolved parameterized cloud processes in global climate models (GCMs). …
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The cloud-radiative forcing of the U.S. landfalling atmospheric rivers
… higher latitudes. Streaks of highly reflective clouds are observed along with the ARs in satellite imagery. These clouds both influence the moisture transport of ARs, as well as modify the Earth-Atmospheric energy budget through pathways such as cloud-radiative forcing (CRF). This dissertation …