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ReviewCurrent pollution reports2025

Recent Advances in the Observation and Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, Cloud Feedbacks, and Earth's Energy Imbalance: A Review.

Takuro Michibata, Casey J Wall, Nagio Hirota, Brandon M Duran, Toru Nozawa

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Review in Current pollution reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Takuro MichibataResearch Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Casey J WallDepartment of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nagio HirotaEarth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
Brandon M DuranScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA USA.
Toru NozawaDepartment of Earth Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose of review: This review focuses on improving the understanding of the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on cloud processes, precipitation, radiation, climate, associated feedback mechanisms, and Earth's energy imbalance (EEI), with a particular emphasis on literature published after the IPCC AR6. Recent findings: EarthCARE, an epoch-making satellite mission, has just been launched in 2024. Global climate models (GCMs) have become sophisticated, particularly with respect to the treatment of precipitation, and novel GCMs have been developed for the upcoming Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Satellite simulators have been used to incorporate new diagnostics to facilitate an apples-to-apples comparison between the models and observations established in the recent studies. Summary: To reduce the key uncertainties at fundamental process levels, we focus on: (1) assessing model-observation discrepancies, (2) improving the existing models, and (3) examining the linkage between effective radiative forcing, cloud feedback, and the recent EEI trends.

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Aerosol–cloud interactionsCloud feedbackEarth’s energy imbalanceRadiative forcing

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PMID40837443
PMCPMC12361286

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