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@article{Voigt:2021:10.1002/wcc.694,
author = {Voigt, A and Albern, N and Ceppi, P and Grise, K and Li, Y and Medeiros, B},
doi = {10.1002/wcc.694},
journal = {Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change},
pages = {1--22},
title = {Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric circulation in the present-day climate and under climate change},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.694},
volume = {12},
year = {2021}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - By interacting with radiation, clouds modulate the flow of energy through the Earth system, the circulation of the atmosphere, and regional climate. We review the impact of cloudradiation interactions for the atmospheric circulation in the presentday climate, its internal variability and its response to climate change. After summarizing cloudcontrolling factors and cloudradiative effects, we clarify the scope and limits of the Clouds OnOff Klimate Model Intercomparison Experiment (COOKIE) and cloudlocking modeling methods. COOKIE showed that the presence of cloudradiative effects shapes the circulation in the presentday climate in many important ways, including the width of the tropical rain belts and the position of the extratropical storm tracks. Cloud locking, in contrast, identified how clouds affect internal variability and the circulation response to global warming. This includes strong, but modeldependent, shortwave and longwave cloud impacts on the ElNino Southern Oscillation, and the finding that most of the poleward circulation expansion in response to global warming can be attributed to radiative changes in clouds. We highlight the circulation impact of shortwave changes from lowlevel clouds and longwave changes from rising highlevel clouds, and the contribution of these cloud changes to model differences in the circulation response to global warming. The review in particular draws attention to the role of cloudradiative heating within the atmosphere. We close by raising some open questions which, among others, concern the need for studying the cloud impact on regional scales and opportunities created by the next generation of global stormresolving models.
AU - Voigt,A
AU - Albern,N
AU - Ceppi,P
AU - Grise,K
AU - Li,Y
AU - Medeiros,B
DO - 10.1002/wcc.694
EP - 22
PY - 2021///
SN - 1757-7780
SP - 1
TI - Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric circulation in the present-day climate and under climate change
T2 - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.694
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UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.694
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/85120
VL - 12
ER -