ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Making Clouds Darker Sharpens Cloudy Climate Models

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Science 20 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5627, pp. 1859 - 1860
DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5627.1859a

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Making Clouds Darker Sharpens Cloudy Climate Models

Richard A. Kerr

Clouds are the great uncertainty of climate prediction. If researchers could get them more or less right in their models, they could be more definite about how warm it could get this century. Plenty remains wrong with model clouds, but researchers are now fixing a crucial shortcoming.

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