Substantial Cloud Brightening From Shipping in Subtropical Low Clouds published in AGU Advances

Figure. The concentration of cloud droplets as observed by satellites (left) and a statistical estimate of what the concentration of cloud droplets would be without the effect of shipping pollution the southeast Atlantic Ocean (right).

Our new paper analyzing the effect of shipping pollution on cloud properties and the implications for regional and global climate was just published in the first issue of the American Geophysical Union’s new gold open access journal AGU Advances.

The paper is freely available at: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019AV000111

The University of Washington and American Geophysical Union put out press releases with more information: UW / AGU

For further reading, I have also written up a few short blog posts about the study in general, its implications for climate change, and its implications for deliberate climate interventions (marine cloud brightening).

Update from June 16, 2022: Our paper was one of the top 10 most downloaded papers from AGU Advances published between January 2019 and December 2020!

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