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Articles | Volume 24, issue 17
Articles | Volume 24, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9749-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9749-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 24, issue 17
Research article
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04 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2024

Atmospheric cloud-radiative heating in CMIP6 and observations and its response to surface warming

Aiko Voigt, Stefanie North, Blaž Gasparini, and Seung-Hee Ham

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Clouds shape weather and climate by interacting with photons, which changes temperatures within the atmosphere. We assess how well CMIP6 climate models capture this radiative heating by clouds within the atmosphere. While we find large differences among models, especially in cold regions of the atmosphere with abundant ice clouds, we also demonstrate that physical understanding allows us to predict the response of clouds and their radiative heating near the tropopause to climate change.
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