Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Meteorology: Clouds and climate regulation

Nature volume 315, pages 713–714 (1985)Cite this article

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Crane, R. G. & Barry, R. G. J. Climat. 4, 71 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Webster, P. J. & Stephens, G. L. in The Global Climate (ed. Houghton, J. T.) Ch. 5 (Cambridge University Press, 1984).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Stephens, G. L. Mon. Weath. Rev. 112, 826 (1984).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Roads, J. O. & Vallis, G. K. Tellus 36A, 236 (1984).

    Google Scholar 

  5. Roads, J. O., Vallis, G. K. & Remer, L. Geophys. Monogr. 29, 92 (1984).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Liou, K.–N. & Curran, R. J. Bull. Am. Meteorolog. Soc. 65, 475 (1984).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Twomey, S. A., Piepgrass, M. & Wolfe, T. L. Tellus 36B, 356 (1984).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Somerville, R. C. J. & Remer, L. A. J. geophys. Res. 89, 9668 (1984).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Schiffer, R. A. & Rossow, W. B. Bull. Am. Meteorolog. Soc. 64, 779 (1983).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Ohring, G. & Gruber, A. Adv. Geophy. 25, 237 (1983).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Henderson-Sellers, A. ed. Satellite Sensing of a Cloudy Atmosphere: Observing the Third Planet (Taylor and Francis, London and Philadelphia, 1984).

  12. Liou, K.–N. & Zheng, Q.J. Atmos. Sci. 41, 1513 (1984).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. Slingo, J. & Ritter, B. Cloud Prediction in the ECMWF Model Tech. Rep. No. 46 (European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, 1985).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA

    Richard C. J. Somerville

Authors
  1. Richard C. J. Somerville
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Somerville, R. Meteorology: Clouds and climate regulation. Nature 315, 713–714 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/315713a0

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/315713a0

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing