ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

"REMOTE SENSING AEROSOL-CLOUD-PRECIPITATION-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS"
SAT-ACPC

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Main objectives

The main objective of the ISSI Team "Remote observation of aerosol-cloud- precipitation-climate interactions" is to make significant strides in understanding the interplay among the aerosol, clouds and precipitation, and the way these interactions are forcing the climate system. This can be reached through multidisciplinary research in the framework of International ISSI Teams.

The main aims of the Team are to:

  1. Organize four 3-day ISSI team meetings gathering an international multidisciplinary group of scientists working on remote sensing of clouds, aerosols and precipitation, experts in clouds, aerosols and air chemistry physics and in Earth energy budget, and global circulation models.

  2. Identify ways to use the already available large amounts of under?exploited satellite data for understanding and quantifying the ways by which cloud?aerosol interactions affect cloud composition, precipitation and the ways they cascade to force the climate system as a whole.

  3. Identify which observations are required to be continued on a long term basis, and which missing key observations need to be included.

  4. Summarize, write and publish a peer?reviewed scientific article on space-borne measurements as a major component of our toolbox for understanding cloud-aerosol-precipitation-climate interactions on global, regional and process scales. The article will be submitted to a high profile publication.

  5. Plan a focused coordinated, comprehensive, extensive observational campaign to study aerosol? cloud?precipitation interactions coupled to state-of-the-art modeling and the way by which these processes can be detected and quantified by satellite and other remote sensing measurements.