Ice shards in Antarctic clouds let more solar energy reach Earth's surface - EurekAlert

Including the splintering of ice inside clouds around Antarctica improves high-resolution global models’ ability to simulate clouds over the Southern Ocean – and thus the models’ ability to simulate Earth’s climate.

image: Clouds observed over the Southern Ocean on Jan. 29, 2018, during a field campaign involving the University of Washington that studied summer cloud cover around Antarctica.view more  Credit: N… [+3263 chars]

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