Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover

  • Gregory Duveiller,
  • Federico Filipponi,
  • Andrej Ceglar,
  • Jędrzej Bojanowski,
  • Ramdane Alkama,
  • Alessandro Cescatti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24551-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Forests can influence climate by affecting low cloud formation, but where and when this occurs is not well known. Here, the authors provide a global-scale assessment, based on satellite remote sensing observations, suggesting afforestation mostly increases low cloud cover which could potentially cool surface temperatures.