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A Climatological Overview of Arctic Clouds

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Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere

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The Arctic climate system is complex and clouds are one of its least understood components. Since cloud processes occur from micrometer to synoptic scales, their couplings with the other components of the Arctic climate system and their overall role in modulating the energy budget at different spatio-temporal scales is challenging to quantify. The in-situ measurements, as limited in space and time as they are, still reveal the complex nature of cloud microphysical and thermodynamical processes in the Arctic. However, the synoptic scale variability of cloud systems can only be obtained from the satellite observations. A considerable progress has been made in the last decade in understanding cloud processes in the Arctic due to the availability of valuable data from the multiple campaigns in the Central Arctic and due to the advances in the satellite remote sensing. This chapter provides an overview of this progress.

First an overview of the lessons learned from the recent in-situ measurement campaigns in the Arctic is provided. In particular, the importance of supercooled liquid water clouds, their role in the radiation budget and their interaction with the vertical thermodynamical structure is discussed. In the second part of the chapter, a climatological overview of cloud properties using the state-of-the-art satellite based cloud climate datasets is provided. The agreements and disagreements in these datasets are highlighted. The third and the fourth parts of the chapter highlight two most important processes that are currently being researched, namely cloud response to the rapidly changing sea-ice extent and the role of moisture transport in to the Arctic in governing cloud variability. Both of these processes have implications for the cloud feedback in the Arctic.

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Acknowledgements

Abhay Devasthale would like to acknowledge the support from SMHI, EU Horizon 2020 project INTAROS and Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The availability of data records from EUMETSAT/CM-SAF, EUMETSAT/OSI-SAF, NOAA/NCDC/PATMOS-X, NOAA/NCDC/ISCCP, ESA Cloud CCI, and NASA/AIRS is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank the Science Teams behind these climate data records.

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Devasthale, A., Sedlar, J., Tjernström, M., Kokhanovsky, A. (2020). A Climatological Overview of Arctic Clouds. In: Kokhanovsky, A., Tomasi, C. (eds) Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33566-3_5

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