The lifetime of individual clouds doesn't enter into the global effects. (judithcurry.com)
His research over the past decade has explored the multifarious ways in which atmospheric dynamics at all scales — from planetary - scale waves to the motion of individual cloud droplets — helps shape past, present and future climates, using a combination of simple models, full - complexity general circulation models, observational data analysis and statistical modelling. (royalsociety.org)
Since individual clouds have a life time of hours, and the CRF - interpretation involves changes in the reflected light as well as ionisation, a climatic response from change in CRF is hypothetically almost instantaneous, and it is a challenge to explain why the night side (where there is no sunlight and hence reflection can not play a role) warms more strongly than the dayside, if the CRF were to drive the recent warming trend. (realclimate.org)