Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change
Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change
Session ID#: 119315
Session Description:
Boundary layer clouds are a key element in Earth's climate system. Their response and feedback to climate change is a leading source of uncertainty in projecting Earth's radiation budget and climate. This session provides a platform for observational, theoretical, and modeling work on warm, supercooled, and mixed-phase boundary layer clouds from the microscale to the global scale. Topics include mechanisms by which boundary layer clouds interact with climate in the course of trends and variations in atmospheric circulation, temperature, humidity, radiation, and composition. Interactions between natural and anthropogenic aerosol and clouds, mechanisms that link clouds with biological activity, vegetation, and surface processes, and consequences for radiation, precipitation, and climate are of equal interest.
Index Terms:
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: David Painemal, SSAI /NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners: Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison: David Painemal, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
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