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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 389-399
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Cloudy perspectives / Louise Nuijens and Christian Jakob -- Clouds as fluids / Bjorn Stevens and A. Pier Siebesma -- Clouds as particles / Hanna Pawlowska and Ben Shipway -- Clouds as light / Robert Pincus and Hélène Chepfer -- Conceptualising clouds / Stephan de Roode and Roel Neggers -- Parameterising clouds / A. Pier Siebesma and Axel Seifert -- Evaluating clouds / Christian Jakob and Jean-Louis Dufresne -- Tropical and subtropical cloud systems / Gilles Bellon and Sandrine Bony -- Midlatitude cloud systems / George Tselioudis and Kevin Grise -- Arctic cloud systems / Gunilla Svensson and Thorsten Mauritsen -- Clouds and aerosols / Johannes Quaas and Ulrike Lohmann -- Clouds and land / Cathy Hohenegger and Christoph Schär -- Clouds and warming / Sandrine Bony and Bjorn Stevens.
"Clouds have always fascinated humans, but never has the need to understand them been so vital. As global surface temperature increases, human activities influence particulate matter in the atmosphere, and the properties of the land surface, clouds are expected to change, with manifold consequences for the climate. Clouds influence climate through their regulation of radiant energy transfer, through their role in convective energy transport, and in mediating the water cycle. Cloud research has never been so exciting. It is a topic with many new opportunities. New satellite observations from space with active instruments such as lidar and radar allow for the first time to reconstruct the three-dimensional distribution of clouds across Earth. Likewise, numerical simulations are beginning to globally resolve the three spatial dimensions of clouds as well as their dynamic evolution. This is enabling researchers, for the first time, to link the smallscale cloud processes and the basic laws that govern them to the general circulation of the atmosphere. These new types of observations, and simulation, are enabling researchers to distinguish how different cloud types influence the climate, and are guiding conceptual representations of their collective behaviour"--