Cloudy Problems: Today's Clouds Might Not Be the Same as Pre-Industrial Ones
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 17:40
in Astronomy & Space
Clouds are notoriously hard to simulate in computer programs that model climate. A new study in the Proceedings on the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition suggests why -- either clouds are more variable than scientists give them credit for, or those bright white clouds in the sky are much dirtier than scientists thought.