I look forward to seeing how this holds up to scrutiny. Given the latitudinal gradient of temperature, the result would seem to suggest that clouds get lower as one goes toward the equator, and are lower during the summer than the winter. Is this really the case?
While changes could be induced by circulation changes (e.g., a strengthened Hadley circulation could perhaps thin the subtropical boundary layer), I look forward to understanding better how global the effect is found to be. Mike MacCracken On 2/29/12 1:54 PM, "Veli Albert Kallio" <[email protected]> wrote: > A new negative feedback has been observed which opens a possibility for a > temperature adjustment and cooling by cloud cover height alteration. > > New reasearch suggests the upper atmosphere is getting colder or drier to the > extent that the cloud tops now reach 1% lower than 10 years ago. > > This is a novel negative forcing from greenhouse gas forcing that traps more > heat and moisture to the lower parts of the air column: > > http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/misr20120221.html > <http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/misr20120221.html> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
