• DOI:10.1038/s41561-019-0310-1
Corpus ID: 134307699

Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming

@article{Schneider2019PossibleCT,
  title={Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming},
  author={T. Schneider and C. Kaul and K. G. Pressel},
  journal={Nature Geoscience},
  year={2019},
  volume={12},
  pages={163-167}
}

T. Schneider, C. Kaul, K. G. Pressel

Published 2019

Environmental Science

Nature Geoscience

Stratocumulus clouds cover 20% of the low-latitude oceans and are especially prevalent in the subtropics. They cool the Earth by shading large portions of its surface from sunlight. However, as their dynamical scales are too small to be resolvable in global climate models, predictions of their response to greenhouse warming have remained uncertain. Here we report how stratocumulus decks respond to greenhouse warming in large-eddy simulations that explicitly resolve cloud dynamics in a… CONTINUE READING

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