Date | Literature reading | Notes |
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March 30th (Mon) | Introductions. Objectives. Primer on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions | Introduction to ATMS 591 slides |
April 1st (Wed) | Twomey, S., 1977: The Influence of Pollution on the Shortwave Albedo of Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 34 (7): 1149â52. | Notes on Twomey (1977) Seinfeld and Pandis (P1078-1086) has a useful short chapter on aerosol indirect effects that introduces the concept of albedo susceptibility. |
April 6th (Mon) | Albrecht, B. A., 1989: Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness. Science, 245, 1227â30. | Notes on Albrecht (1989) |
April 8th (Wed) | No class | |
April 13th (Mon) | Ramanathan, V. Aerosols, Climate, and the Hydrological Cycle. Science 294, no. 5549 (December 7, 2001): 2119â24. doi:10.1126/science.1064034. | |
April 15th (Wed) | Nakajima, T., A. Higurashi, K. Kawamoto, and J. E. Penner, 2001: A Possible Correlation between Satellite-Derived Cloud and Aerosol Microphysical Parameters. Geophysical Research Letters 28, no. 7 (April 1, 2001): 117174. | Notes on Nakajima et al. (2001) |
April 20th (Mon) | Lebsock, Matthew D., Graeme L. Stephens, and Christian Kummerow, 2008: Multisensor Satellite Observations of Aerosol Effects on Warm Clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, no. D15. | Notes on Lebsock et al. (2008) |
April 22nd (Wed) | Ackerman, A. S., M. P. Kirkpatrick, D. E. Stevens, and O. B. Toon, 2004: The Impact of Humidity above Stratiform Clouds on Indirect Aerosol Climate Forcing.Nature 432, 1014-17. | Notes on Ackerman et al. (2004) |
April 27th (Mon) | Bretherton, C. S., P. N. Blossey, and J. Uchida, 2007: Cloud Droplet Sedimentation, Entrainment Efficiency, and Subtropical Stratocumulus Albedo. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, doi:10.1029/2006GL027648. | Notes on Bretherton et al. (2007) |
April 29th (Wed) | No class | |
May 4th (Mon) | Heymsfield, A. J., P. C. Kennedy, S. Massie, C. Schmitt, Z. Wang, S. Haimov, and A. Rangno, 2009:Aircraft-Induced Hole Punch and Canal Clouds: Inadvertent Cloud Seeding. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 91, 75366. | Notes on Heymsfield et al. (2010) |
May 6th (Wed) | Andreae, Meinrat O., Chris D. Jones, and Peter M. Cox, 2005: Strong Present-Day Aerosol Cooling Implies a Hot Future. Nature, 435, 1187â90. Kiehl, Jeffrey T, 2007: Twentieth Century Climate Model Response and Climate Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters 34, 22 | Notes on Andreae (2005) and Kiehl (2007) |
May 11th (Mon) | McFiggans, G., P. Artaxo, U. Baltensperger, H. Coe, M. C. Facchini, G. Feingold, S. Fuzzi, et al., 2006. The Effect of Physical and Chemical Aerosol Properties on Warm Cloud Droplet Activation. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 6, no. 9 (July 5, 2006): 2593â2649. doi:10.5194/acp-6-2593-2006. | Notes on McFiggans et al. (2006) |
May 13th (Wed) | Jones, A., D. L. Roberts, and A. Slingo, 1994: A Climate Model Study of Indirect Radiative Forcing by Anthropogenic Sulphate Aerosols.Nature, 370, 45053. | Notes on Jones et al. (1994) |
May 18th (Mon) | Hoose, C., Lohmann, U., Bennartz, R., Croft, B., and Lesins, G., 2008: Global simulations of aerosol processing in clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 6939-6963. | Notes on Hoose et al. (2006) |
May 20th (Wed) | Stevens and Feingold, 2009: Untangling Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Precipitation in a Buffered System. Nature, 461, 607â13. | Notes on Stevens and Feingold (2009) |
May 25th (Mon) | NO CLASS (Memorial day) | |
May 27th (Mon) | IPCC 2013, Chapter 7 | Notes on IPCC Chapter 7, Part 1 |
June 1st (Mon) | IPCC 2013, Chapter 7 | Notes on IPCC Chapter 7, Part 2 |
June 3rd (Wed) | Presentations |