ArticleScience advances2023
Observational evidence of strong forcing from aerosol effect on low cloud coverage.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Challenges in global climate models to represent cloud response to aerosols: insights from volcanic eruptions.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Detectable ship tracks account for just 5% of aerosol indirect forcing from ship emissions.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Constraining effects of aerosol-cloud interaction by accounting for coupling between cloud and land surface.Science advances · 2024Article
- Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
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Abstract
Aerosols cool Earth's climate indirectly by increasing low cloud brightness and their coverage (Cf), constituting the aerosol indirect forcing (AIF). The forcing partially offsets the greenhouse warming and positively correlates with the climate sensitivity. However, it remains highly uncertain. Here, we show direct observational evidence for strong forcing from Cf adjustment to increased aerosols and weak forcing from cloud liquid water path adjustment. We estimate that the Cf adjustment drives between 52% and 300% of additional forcing to the Twomey effect over the ocean and a total AIF of -1.1 ± 0.8 W m
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