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SUBMITTER: Zhao B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800730 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geophysical research letters 20180401 7
Aerosol-cloud interactions represent one of the largest uncertainties in external forcings on our climate system. Compared with liquid clouds, the observational evidence for the aerosol impact on ice clouds is much more limited and shows conflicting results, partly because the distinct features of different ice cloud and aerosol types were seldom considered. Using 9-year satellite retrievals, we find that, for convection-generated (anvil) ice clouds, cloud optical thickness, cloud thickness, and ...[more]