Open AccessIcy Clouds May Counter Climate Warming Less Than Expected
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Deatrick
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo050169
Subject(s) - environmental science , warming up , atmospheric sciences , climatology , meteorology , geography , geology , biology , physiology
A new analysis of cloud composition and behavior suggests that scientists have overestimated the ability of a type of mixed-phase ice-and-water cloud to mitigate climate change effects.