If you take a look at nearly any satellite image of clouds in the tropics (for example, the GOES west geostationary satellite image from a few days ago), you’ll notice that convective clouds (the tall thunderstorm clouds associated with strong circulations) tend to be organized into clusters. This clustering ranges from features such as squall […]
I’m a co-author on a paper that appeared last week in Nature Geoscience entitled “Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity”. This paper describes a “Grand Challenge”, one of several activities with that label, all begun in the last couple of years under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). For about another three weeks, the paper is freely […]