Expected Data Products - Atmosphere -

Our inability to adequately model cloud processes is a major obstacle in accurate simulations of global warming scenarios. Low-level clouds and upper-level clouds play different roles in the climate system. How they change through the global warming process is, at present, not fully understood. Aerosols are also important for the global warming issue, as revealed by several recent studies on direct aerosol and indirect cloud-aerosol interaction effects on the Earth's climate. It is, therefore, important to generate global archives of geophysical parameters related to cloud, water vapor and aerosol fields. Using these data sets, we should study the global distribution, annual variability, and feedback mechanisms of the fields.
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