Understanding Cloud Processes and Cloud–Climate Feedback: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 655
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cloud processes span a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, from the microphysics of individual cloud droplets to the macrophysics of cloud systems at the regional and global scales. These processes are vital to the Earth–atmosphere system, affecting radiative balance, water cycles, and climate sensitivity. However, significant challenges persist in the understanding of cloud properties, largely due to limitations in observations and model parameterizations. Moreover, the uncertainties in cloud feedback mechanisms continue to limit our understanding of future climate change. This Special Issue, entitled “Understanding Cloud Processes and Cloud–Climate Feedback: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives”, aims to bring together recent research on the characteristics of cloud processes, cloud feedback mechanisms, and their implications for climate sensitivity.
Submissions are invited from studies that have used satellite or in situ observations, advanced modeling techniques, and theoretical approaches to enhance our understanding of cloud macro- and micro-physics, cloud radiative effects, and the effects of clouds on regional and global climate patterns. Contributions that (1) address cloud physics and their processes, (2) explore the long-term changes in clouds and their radiative effects, or (3) provide a comprehensive analysis on cloud feedback mechanisms are particularly welcome. The encouraged topics are, however, not limited to the above. Papers contributing to garnering insight into the mechanisms of aerosol–cloud–climate interactions are also welcome. This Special Issue offers a platform for sharing innovative findings and discussing future research directions to improve the representation of clouds in climate models and ultimately reduce the uncertainties in climate projections.
Dr. Hao Luo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cloud processes
- cloud physics
- cloud–climate feedback
- cloud radiative effects
- climate change
- satellite observations
- climate modeling
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