Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Aerosol effects on clouds are concealed by natural cloud heterogeneity and satellite retrieval errors

  • Antti Arola,
  • Antti Lipponen,
  • Pekka Kolmonen,
  • Timo H. Virtanen,
  • Nicolas Bellouin,
  • Daniel P. Grosvenor,
  • Edward Gryspeerdt,
  • Johannes Quaas,
  • Harri Kokkola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34948-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors showed that previous analyses which have estimated that the cloud water content decreases with increasing number of cloud droplets may have a negative bias due to variability in satellite data, thus underestimating aerosol-cloud-climate cooling.