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Why similar changes in cloud cover can have different climate effects

Marine low clouds over the world's eastern subtropical oceans strongly influence Earth's temperature by reflecting sunlight back to space. How these clouds change as the planet warms is one of the biggest uncertainties in predicting the severity of future warming.

Why similar changes in cloud cover can have different climate effects
Image: Phys.org
Marine low clouds over the world's eastern subtropical oceans strongly influence Earth's temperature by reflecting sunlight back to space. How these clouds change as the planet warms is one of the biggest uncertainties in predicting the severity of future warming.

Originally published at Phys.org

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