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Research article
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04 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 04 Mar 2019
| 04 Mar 2019
Evaluating models' response of tropical low clouds to SST forcings using CALIPSO observations
Grégory Cesana
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, Earth
Institute, New York, NY, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics, New York, NY, USA
Anthony D. Del Genio
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Andrew S. Ackerman
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Maxwell Kelley
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
SciSpace LLC, Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Gregory Elsaesser
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics, New York, NY, USA
Ann M. Fridlind
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Ye Cheng
Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, Earth
Institute, New York, NY, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Mao-Sung Yao
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
SciSpace LLC, Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
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Short summary
The response of low clouds to climate change (i.e., cloud feedbacks) is still pointed out as being the largest source of uncertainty in climate models. Here we use CALIPSO observations to discriminate climate models that reproduce observed interannual change of cloud fraction with SST forcings, referred to as a present-day cloud feedback. Modeling moist processes in the planetary boundary layer is crucial to produce large stratocumulus decks and realistic present-day cloud feedbacks.
The response of low clouds to climate change (i.e., cloud feedbacks) is still pointed out as...
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