Overview
- Provides a comprehensive view of the role of clouds and water vapor in helping control the past, present, and future large-scale circulations, with impacts on climate sensitivity
- Includes thorough assessments of current understanding and future opportunities enabled by field experiments, new and prospective technologies, and emerging synthesis and understanding
- Represents a deep source of cutting-edge information on the topics of convective self-aggregation and low cloud feedbacks
- Presents a unified view of clouds, water vapor, and circulation informed by observational, theoretical, and modeling approaches
Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 65)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 38, Issue 6, 2017
The aritcles “Observing Convective Aggregation”, “An Observational View of Relationships Between Moisture Aggregation, Cloud, and Radiative Heating Profiles”, “Implications of Warm Rain in Shallow Cumulus and Congestus Clouds for Large-Scale Circulations”, “A Survey of Precipitation-Induced Atmospheric Cold Pools over Oceans and Their Interactions with the Larger-Scale Environment”, “Low-Cloud Feedbacks from Cloud-Controlling Factors: A Review”, “Mechanisms and Model Diversity of Trade-Wind Shallow Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks: A Review”, “Structure and Dynamical Influence of Water Vapor in the Lower Tropical Troposphere”, “Emerging Technologies and Synergies for Airborne and Space-Based Measurements of Water Vapor Profiles”, “Observational Constraints on Cloud Feedbacks: The Role of Active Satellite Sensors”, and “EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation” are available as open access articles under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Winker is a senior scientist at NASA Langley Research Center and Principal Investigator of the CALIPSO satellite mission. His work focuses on the use of lidar and combined lidar and passive observations to better understand atmospheric aerosols and clouds. His efforts have ranged from the development of space lidar systems and innovative retrieval techniques to the development of global lidar data products tailored to the needs of the climate and operational weather forecast communities. CALIPSO global cloud products have served as benchmark references for the GEWEX Cloud Assessment and for the evaluation of cloud thermodynamic phase in global models, leading to new insights into the behavior of clouds and guiding the improvement of models.
Bjorn Stevens is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, where he leads the Atmosphere in the Earth System Department, and a professor at the University of Hamburg. His research, which uses a wide range of methodologies to study how water in the atmosphere influences Earth’s climate, has made important contributions to understanding of how turbulent mixing and cloud microphysical processes influence the structure and organization of clouds. In showing how these processes influence the cloud response to warming, and how radiative forcing responds to aerosol perturbations, his research has proven instrumental for our present comprehension of climate change.
Sandrine Bony is a Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France, working at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) of Sorbonne University. Her research aims at understanding the role of clouds in climate and in climate change through modeling, observational and theoretical approaches. Her most important contributions include unraveling the physical mechanisms through which clouds respond to climate change and influence climate sensitivity, showing the influence of the organization of tropical convection on climate, and understanding the ways in which clouds and precipitation couple to atmospheric circulations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shallow Clouds, Water Vapor, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity
Editors: Robert Pincus, David Winker, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens
Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77273-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77272-1Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08415-8Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77273-8Published: 29 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1385-7525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 396
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 134 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Spin-off from the journal Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 38, Issue 6, 2017
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Climate Change