Speaker: Tom Goren (BIU)
Title: A Ternary Framework for Marine Stratocumulus Morphology and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Abstract: Marine low-level clouds span a continuum of morphologies but are often classified into discrete regimes. I will present a new ternary framework that captures this continuum and provides insights into cloud morphological evolution and the underlying physical
processes. The framework also allows us to better characterize how cloud responses to changes in droplet number concentration depend on morphology. The results reveal considerable variability in the contributions of liquid water path, cloud cover, and the
Twomey effect to the overall cloud albedo response, with these contributions either offsetting or amplifying one another. These findings also have important implications for the potential effectiveness of marine cloud brightening.