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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3303-2022
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Research article
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14 Mar 2022
Research article |
| 14 Mar 2022
| 14 Mar 2022
Quantifying albedo susceptibility biases in shallow clouds
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Tom Goren
Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Takanobu Yamaguchi
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Short summary
The evaluation of radiative forcing associated with aerosol–cloud interactions remains a significant source of uncertainty in future climate projections. Using high-resolution numerical model output, we mimic typical satellite retrieval methodologies to show that data aggregation can introduce significant error (hundreds of percent) in the cloud albedo susceptibility metric. Spatial aggregation errors tend to be countered by temporal aggregation errors.
The evaluation of radiative forcing associated with aerosol–cloud interactions remains a...
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