@article{ROSSOW2024100004,

title = {Evolution of the concept of cloud-climate feedbacks},

author = {William B. Rossow},

url = {https://www.williambrossow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Evolution-of-the-concept-of-cloud-cli_2024_Journal-of-the-European-Meteorolo.pdf},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemets.2024.100004},

issn = {2950-6301},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Journal of the European Meteorological Society},

volume = {1},

pages = {100004},

abstract = {The early concept of cloud-climate feedback was formulated as involving solely cloud cover effects on planetary radiation, separate from precipitation, and consistent with simple climate models. However, more than 50 years later, this concept continues to dominate analyses, especially of climate model performance, even though multiple global data products now exist that quantify weather-to-decadal scale joint variations of cloud properties, radiative fluxes, precipitation, surface energy and water fluxes, atmospheric and surface properties, and the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean. A more complete, observation-based analysis of cloud feedbacks on weather, seasonal and interannual scales is now possible. Results to date indicate that the cloud-radiative feedback amplifies the positive cloud-precipitation feedback on the atmospheric circulation from weather-to-annual time scales. Further analysis extensions are suggested.},

keywords = {PRECIPITATION, Radiation, Weather},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}