Interactions Among Aerosols, Clouds, and Radiation
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 June 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will advance current understanding of aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions and their implications for weather and climate systems. We invite contributions that employ observational, theoretical, and modeling approaches to investigate the physical and dynamical processes governing these interactions across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Observational studies of aerosols, clouds, and radiation using satellite remote sensing, ground-based networks, radar, and lidar measurements, emphasizing understanding of the processes involved and comparison between aspects;
- Model development and evaluation related to aerosol, cloud, and radiation processes, encompassing large-eddy simulations (LESs), cloud-permitting and regional models, chemistry–climate models, and numerical weather prediction frameworks;
- Process-level investigations of cloud microphysics and aerosol–cloud interactions, including ice nucleation, cloud droplet activation, autoconversion, accretion, deposition, evaporation, and the dynamics of stratocumulus, shallow cumulus, and deep convective systems;
- Aerosol-influenced meteorological and climatic phenomena, such as monsoon systems over South Asia, East Asia, North America, and Africa; wildfires and biomass burning; climate change and global warming; the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO); and Rossby wave dynamics.
This Special Issue will integrate multidisciplinary perspectives and state-of-the-art methodologies to improve the representation of aerosol–cloud–radiation processes in models and enhance the predictability of weather and climate systems.
Dr. Anning Cheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions
- cloud microphysics and dynamics
- atmospheric observations (satellite, radar, lidar)
- model development and evaluation
- large-eddy and cloud-permitting simulations
- numerical weather prediction and climate modeling
- aerosol impacts on monsoon systems
- wildfires and aerosol–climate feedbacks
- climate variability and teleconnections (ENSO, Rossby waves)
- chemistry–climate modeling
- process-level understanding of cloud–aerosol coupling
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