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Cloudy with a chance of warming: how physicists are studying the dynamical impact of clouds on climate change

26 Nov 2024

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists and atmospheric scientists studying the properties and processes of cloud physics – from structure and phase-transitions to modelling and manipulations

Satellite view of stratocumulus clouds
Cloud science Stratocumulus clouds above the north-western Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan. (Courtesy: Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center)
For all of us concerned about climate change, 2023 was a grim year. According to the World Meteorolo

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