Eleftheratos, K., C.S. Zerefos, P. Zanis, D.S. Balis, G. Tselioudis, K. Gierens, and R. Sausen, 2007: A study on natural and manmade global interannual fluctuations
of cirrus cloud cover for the period 1984 - 2004.
Francis, P.N., P. Hignett, and A. Macke, 1998: The retrieval
of cirrus cloud properties from aircraft multi-spectral reflectance measurements during EUCREX» 93.
«Only after these questions are addressed could one move further to explore the costs and feasibility
of cirrus cloud thinning.»
The 27 - 28 October 1986 FIRE IFO cirrus case study: spectral properties
of cirrus cloud in the 8 - 12 um window.
As a result, the area
of cirrus cloud is reduced.»
Analyzing data collected over a 20 - month period, scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the number
of cirrus clouds above the Pacific Ocean declines with warmer sea surface temperatures.
According to Beat in his nomination letter, «She is an excellent scientist whose research has greatly increased our knowledge of the radiative impact
of cirrus clouds on the tropics.
For example, they will use data from the ARM field campaign SPARTICUS (Small Particles in Cirrus) between November 2009 and March 2010, which will focus specifically on measuring properties
of cirrus clouds.
The sky was stark blue save for a distant smudge
of cirrus clouds.
The overall heat - trapping effect
of cirrus clouds is so large that it exceeds that of human - released CO2, says Prof Ulrike Lohmann, an atmospheric scientist from ETH Zurich who recently published a review on cloud thinning in Science.
So, lots of cumulus clouds and few cirrus clouds cool the earth while lots
of cirrus clouds and fewer cumulus clouds warm the earth.
This study examines the horizontal distribution
of cirrus clouds by means of satellite imagery analyses and numerical weather prediction model forecasts.
Emissions, they discovered, increased the fraction
of cirrus clouds where vapor trails were most prevalent but decreased the fraction in some areas by increasing the temperature and consequently decreasing the relative humidity in the lower atmosphere.
Macke, A., P.N. Francis, G.M. McFarquhar, and S. Kinne, 1998: The role of ice particle shapes and size distributions in the single scattering properties
of cirrus clouds.
Is this neglect
of cirrus clouds and long wavelengths due to advice given by James Lovelock or Richard Lindzen?
Also, note that aerosol droplets from volcanic eruptions are much more dispersed than those from say aircraft exhaust plumes that do produce a form
of cirrus clouds under certain conditions.
Not exact matches
Now no longer a child, I know that
clouds are
of various types —
cirrus, cumulus, cirrocumulus,...
Now no longer a child, I know that
clouds are
of various types —
cirrus, cumulus, cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus castellanus — and that they portend rain or merely reflect the summer - day idleness that I have no time for.
Besides SSCE, scientists have also been investigating stratospheric sulfur injections — firing sun - reflecting aerosols into the air, similar to the cooling effect after a volcanic eruption — and
cirrus cloud thinning, where you thin the top level
of clouds, which have a warming effect on the planet.
In high
cirrus clouds, which consist purely
of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number
of ice particles by up to a factor
of 100 within only a few seconds.
Intense laser light pulses increase the brightness
of high
cirrus clouds.
Some
of the loveliest sights result from the high, wispy
cirrus clouds that often precede storms.
In addition, around the tropopause the air is close to saturation with water and a small increase
of vapour from aircraft can create wide expanses
of thin
cirrus clouds that cause even stronger warming.
Four other instruments on board the aircraft measure the physical properties
of droplets and ice crystals in high monsoon and
cirrus clouds.
Ulrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, both researchers at the Institute
of Atmospheric and Climate Scienceat ETH Zurich inSwitzerland, proposed a counterintuitive plan: Seed the upper atmosphere with tiny particles
of desert dust to reduce
cirrus clouds.
Students will also learn about these different kinds
of clouds: nimbus,
cirrus, cumulus.
For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude
cirrus clouds and all
of the major low level
cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus
clouds.
Small details, like the tiny knobs
of yellow popping out
of the mist in «Profile (Orb)» (2015), seem to blossom into revelations, enticing you to peer more deeply into the surface, as if the picture plane were an aerial view high above
cirrus clouds, offering hazy glimpses
of the Earth below.
There are two main aspects
of a living earth, the
cirrus cloud part, and the ocean part.
Even more, the Davies paper only looks at 10 years
of data (with sampling times at just one time in the local morning) and doesn't capture some
clouds such as thin
cirrus that may also be important.
At the recent European Geophysical Union conference, there were posters on banner
clouds on the Zugspitze, the role
of cubic ice crystals in high
cirrus formation, and the role
of global cooling in the fall
of the Neanderthals.
The function
of the DNA was not to produce proteins or regulate or translate them, but rather the nucleotide function was simply to provide an electrical feedback to convection processes that occur w /
cirrus clouds that can trap heat, compress air and cause rain over ambient, lifeless winds and climate inputs.
«While low
clouds have a predominantly cooling effect due to their shading
of sunlight, most
cirrus clouds have a net warming effect on the Earth,» Spencer said.
In the tropics most
cirrus - type
clouds flow out
of the upper reaches
of thunderstorm
clouds.
In contrast, an increase in the intensity
of sub-tropical anticyclones observed in ECHAM4 results from a tropospheric warming promoted by excessive
cirrus clouds attributed to a scale - dependent response in the relevant parametrization (Stendel and Roeckner, 1998).
The premise
of Lindzen's hypothesis was that as the climate warms, the area in the atmosphere covered by high
cirrus clouds will contract to allow more heat to escape into outer space, similar to the iris in a human eye contracting to allow less light to pass through the pupil in a brightly lit environment.
The iris hypothesis and the tropical upper tropospheric water vapor and
cirrus cloud feedbacks, while arguably still open to debate, are not by any stretch
of the imagination a major driver in global climate feedback.
As the tops
of cirrus uncinus
clouds blow ahead
of the lower parts, the tails
of the
clouds point towards the west
The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft into the upper atmosphere and the role that they play in modifying the chemical properties
of the atmosphere and initiating the formation
of condensation trails (contrails) and
cirrus clouds.
If the Sun is close to the horizon and feathery
cirrus clouds sit high in the sky, «ghost» images
of the Sun will sometimes materialize on either side
of it, giving the appearance
of three Suns shining in the sky.
Jackson, R.C., G.M. McFarquhar, A. Fridlind, and R. Atlas, 2015: The dependence
of cirrus gamma size distributions expressed as volumes in N0 - λ - μ phase space and bulk
cloud properties on environmental conditions: Results from Small Ice Particles in
Cirrus Experiment (SPARTICUS).
NASA's recent
Cirrus Regional Study
of Tropical Anvils and
Cirrus Layers - Florida Area
Cirrus Experiment focused on anvil
cirrus clouds, an important but poorly understood element
of our climate system.
The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag, convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase
clouds ● Shallow and deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ●
Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer
clouds, CFMIP,
cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol -
cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies on aerosol -
cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and
clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role
of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge
of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role
of convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development
You also left out key
cloud types, such as marine layer stratus and
cirrus, which provide much different types
of response to daily insulation.
The overall effect
of the high thin
cirrus clouds then is to enhance atmospheric greenhouse warming.
«Derivation
of physical and optical properties
of mid-latitude
cirrus ice crystals for a size - resolved
cloud microphysics model.»
At the moment, Lindzen is pursuing a theory that says increased amounts
of water vapor — from warming surface temperatures — will reduce heat - trapping high -
cirrus clouds, which will help balance the planet's temperature.
Meteorologists here still falsely reporting SRM trails as «high
cirrus clouds» Lots
of MORONS around these days and not just in White House.
Rather than magnifying whatever warming takes place, the response
of tropical
cirrus cloud cover is to reduce it.
The ONLY greenhouse type
of effect occurs as a result
of the effects
of clouds, especially the large and reflective type which are generally cumulous (low)
clouds and to some extent
cirrus and stratos, but mostly the low
clouds.