Articles | Volume 23, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2579-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2579-2023
Research article
 | 
23 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2023

Satellite remote sensing of regional and seasonal Arctic cooling showing a multi-decadal trend towards brighter and more liquid clouds

Luca Lelli, Marco Vountas, Narges Khosravi, and John Philipp Burrows

Related authors

Constraints on simulated past Arctic amplification and lapse rate feedback from observations
Olivia Linke, Johannes Quaas, Finja Baumer, Sebastian Becker, Jan Chylik, Sandro Dahlke, André Ehrlich, Dörthe Handorf, Christoph Jacobi, Heike Kalesse-Los, Luca Lelli, Sina Mehrdad, Roel A. J. Neggers, Johannes Riebold, Pablo Saavedra Garfias, Niklas Schnierstein, Matthew D. Shupe, Chris Smith, Gunnar Spreen, Baptiste Verneuil, Kameswara S. Vinjamuri, Marco Vountas, and Manfred Wendisch
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 9963–9992, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9963-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9963-2023, 2023
Short summary
Validation of the Cloud_CCI (Cloud Climate Change Initiative) cloud products in the Arctic
Kameswara S. Vinjamuri, Marco Vountas, Luca Lelli, Martin Stengel, Matthew D. Shupe, Kerstin Ebell, and John P. Burrows
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 2903–2918, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2903-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2903-2023, 2023
Short summary
Spring and summertime aerosol optical depth variability over Arctic cryosphere from space-borne observations and model simulation
Basudev Swain, Marco Vountas, Adrien Deroubaix, Luca Lelli, Aishwarya Singh, Yanick Ziegler, Sachin S. Gunthe, and John P. Burrows
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-730,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-730, 2023
Preprint archived
Short summary
Spring and summertime aerosol optical depth retrieval over the Arctic cryosphere by using satellite observations
Basudev Swain, Marco Vountas, Adrien Deroubaix, Luca Lelli, Yanick Ziegler, Soheila Jafariserajehlou, Sachin S. Gunthe, and John P. Burrows
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-65,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-65, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for AMT
Short summary
The CHROMA cloud-top pressure retrieval algorithm for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission
Andrew M. Sayer, Luca Lelli, Brian Cairns, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Amir Ibrahim, Kirk D. Knobelspiesse, Sergey Korkin, and P. Jeremy Werdell
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 969–996, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-969-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-969-2023, 2023
Short summary

Related subject area

Subject: Clouds and Precipitation | Research Activity: Remote Sensing | Altitude Range: Troposphere | Science Focus: Physics (physical properties and processes)
Asymmetries in cloud microphysical properties ascribed to sea ice leads via water vapour transport in the central Arctic
Pablo Saavedra Garfias, Heike Kalesse-Los, Luisa von Albedyll, Hannes Griesche, and Gunnar Spreen
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14521–14546, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14521-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14521-2023, 2023
Short summary
Quantifying the dependence of drop spectrum width on cloud drop number concentration for cloud remote sensing
Matthew D. Lebsock and Mikael Witte
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14293–14305, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14293-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14293-2023, 2023
Short summary
The evolution of deep convective systems and their associated cirrus outflows
George Horner and Edward Gryspeerdt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14239–14253, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14239-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14239-2023, 2023
Short summary
Wildfire smoke triggers cirrus formation: lidar observations over the eastern Mediterranean
Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri, Albert Ansmann, Kevin Ohneiser, Daniel A. Knopf, Argyro Nisantzi, Johannes Bühl, Ronny Engelmann, Annett Skupin, Patric Seifert, Holger Baars, Dragos Ene, Ulla Wandinger, and Diofantos Hadjimitsis
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14097–14114, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14097-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14097-2023, 2023
Short summary
Rapid saturation of cloud water adjustments to shipping emissions
Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris, Matthew W. Christensen, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, and Philip Stier
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 12545–12555, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12545-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12545-2023, 2023
Short summary

Cited articles

Arosio, C., Rozanov, A., Malinina, E., Weber, M., and Burrows, J. P.: Merging of ozone profiles from SCIAMACHY, OMPS and SAGE II observations to study stratospheric ozone changes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 2423–2444, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2423-2019, 2019. a
Baldridge, A., Hook, S., Grove, C., and Rivera, G.: The ASTER spectral library version 2.0, Remote Sens. Environ., 113, 711–715, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2008.11.007, 2009. a
Bennartz, R., Shupe, M., Turner, D., Walden, V., Steffen K., Cox, C., Kulie, M., Miller, N., and Pettersen, C.: Greenland melt extent enhanced by low-level liquid clouds, Nature, 496, 83–86, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12002, 2013. a
Bjordal, J., Storelvmo, T., Alterskjær, K., and Carlsen, T.: Equilibrium climate sensitivity above 5 C plausible due to state-dependent cloud feedback, Nat. Geosci., 13, 718–721, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-00649-1, 2020. a
Boccolari, M. and Parmiggiani, F.: Trends and variability of cloud fraction cover in the Arctic, 1982–2009, Theor. Appl. Climatol., 132, 739–749, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-017-2125-6, 2018. a
Download
Short summary
Arctic amplification describes the recent period in which temperatures have been rising twice as fast as or more than the global average and sea ice and the Greenland ice shelf are approaching a tipping point. Hence, the Arctic ability to reflect solar energy decreases and absorption by the surface increases. Using 2 decades of complementary satellite data, we discover that clouds unexpectedly increase the pan-Arctic reflectance by increasing their liquid water content, thus cooling the Arctic.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint