Aerosol–Cloud Interactions: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 February 2023) | Viewed by 2618
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropogenic aerosols exert a negative effective radiative forcing that partly offsets warming due to greenhouse gases. The large uncertainty associated with aerosol climatic forcing and the low level of scientific understanding, which limit our ability to accurately predict future climate change, are largely associated with significant differences in the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds (aerosol–cloud interactions, etc.) derived from model simulations and satellite observations. In addition to the gap between observations and simulations, both the weak signal of aerosol–cloud interactions relative to the natural variability of clouds and the satellite retrieval biases of aerosol/cloud properties make it a challenge to identify and quantify aerosol effects on cloud, especially from the observational side. To sidestep the complications raised from these issues, the evident trends in anthropogenic emissions over major industrial region during the past few decades offer an opportunity to detect and confidently assess the effects on cloud properties (e.g., cloud droplet number concentration, liquid water path, and cloud fraction) and the subsequent radiation budget.
In view of above, the journal Atmosphere is hosting this dedicated Special Issue to showcase the most recent findings on regarding global and regional aerosol forcing over the past few decades. This SI is open for submissions of original research studies, reviews, and perspective articles. Comprehensive analysis on the long-term trends of aerosol, cloud, radiation, and other climate-relevant parameters from ground-based and satellite observations as well as climate modeling studies are highly welcome. The encouraged topics are, however, not limited to long-term studies. Papers contributing to garnering insight into the mechanism of aerosol–cloud interactions and the quantification of anthropogenic radiative forcing are also welcome.
Dr. Hailing Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aerosol trend
- cloud trend
- aerosol–cloud interactions
- data analysis
- climate modeling
- climate response to emission control
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