NVCL - Multiscale Models to Advance the Understanding of Liquid-Phase Cloud Response to Aerosol Perturbation Over Ocean and Land with ARM Data

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Multiscale Models to Advance the Understanding of Liquid-Phase Cloud Response to Aerosol Perturbation Over Ocean and Land with ARM Data

This DOE Early Career Research Program project aims to study the response of clouds composed of liquid water (as opposed to clouds cold enough to form ice-phase clouds) as they change to air-suspended particles (i.e., aerosols)

aerosols

Small particles or droplets, such as wildfire smoke, volcanic gases, or salty sea spray, that float in the air. They are emitted by both natural events and human activities.

Source: NASA Global Climate Change Source

and reduce the related uncertainty in the DOE Earth system model.

earth system model (ESM)

A model that simulates how chemistry, biology, and physical forces work together. These models are similar to, but much more comprehensive than, global climate models.

Source: U.S. Department of Energy Source

Keywords	Modeling with ARM Data, ARM data Continuous field measurements of atmospheric data collected with Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) instruments at fixed and varying locations worldwide. Source: Argonne National Laboratory Source Science with ARM Data, warm clouds
TYPE	Early Career

Principal Investigator (PI)

Xue Zheng

Lead Institution

Other Collaborators

NASA Langley Research Center University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

Low-level clouds observed at the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites; the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory and Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. (Image credit: the Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research project)

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Xue Zheng
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory