Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds

@article{Rosenfeld2019AerosoldrivenDC,
  title={Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds},
  author={Daniel Rosenfeld and Yannian Zhu and Minghuai Wang and Youtong Zheng and Tom Goren and Shaocai Yu},
  journal={Science},
  year={2019},
  volume={363}
}
Reflections on cloud effects How much impact does the abundance of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) aerosols above the oceans have on global temperatures? Rosenfeld et al. analyzed how CCN affect the properties of marine stratocumulus clouds, which reflect much of the solar radiation received by Earth back to space (see the Perspective by Sato and Suzuki). The CCN abundance explained most of the variability in the radiative cooling. Thus, the magnitude of radiative forcing provided by these… Expand
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