Recent Advances in the Observation and Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, Cloud Feedbacks, and Earth’s Energy Imbalance: A Review

IF 8.1 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Current Pollution Reports Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI:10.1007/s40726-025-00382-6

Takuro Michibata, Casey J. Wall, Nagio Hirota, Brandon M. Duran, Toru Nozawa

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Abstract

Purpose of review

This review focuses on improving the understanding of the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on cloud processes, precipitation, radiation, climate, associated feedback mechanisms, and Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI), with a particular emphasis on literature published after the IPCC AR6.

Recent findings

EarthCARE, an epoch-making satellite mission, has just been launched in 2024. Global climate models (GCMs) have become sophisticated, particularly with respect to the treatment of precipitation, and novel GCMs have been developed for the upcoming Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Satellite simulators have been used to incorporate new diagnostics to facilitate an apples-to-apples comparison between the models and observations established in the recent studies.

Summary

To reduce the key uncertainties at fundamental process levels, we focus on: (1) assessing model-observation discrepancies, (2) improving the existing models, and (3) examining the linkage between effective radiative forcing, cloud feedback, and the recent EEI trends.

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气溶胶-云相互作用、云反馈和地球能量不平衡的观测和模拟研究进展综述

本综述的重点是提高对人为气溶胶对云过程、降水、辐射、气候、相关反馈机制和地球能量不平衡（EEI）的影响的认识，并特别强调IPCC AR6之后发表的文献。最近的发现是“地球关怀”，一个划时代的卫星任务，刚刚于2024年发射。全球气候模式（GCMs）已经变得复杂，特别是在降水处理方面，并且为即将到来的耦合模式比对项目（CMIP）开发了新的GCMs。卫星模拟器已被用于纳入新的诊断方法，以便在最近的研究中建立的模型和观测结果之间进行全面的比较。为了减少基本过程水平上的关键不确定性，我们重点关注：(1)评估模式与观测的差异；(2)改进现有模式；(3)研究有效辐射强迫、云反馈和近期EEI趋势之间的联系。

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Current Pollution Reports Environmental Science-Water Science and Technology

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期刊介绍： Current Pollution Reports provides in-depth review articles contributed by international experts on the most significant developments in the field of environmental pollution.By presenting clear, insightful, balanced reviews that emphasize recently published papers of major importance, the journal elucidates current and emerging approaches to identification, characterization, treatment, management of pollutants and much more.