Fig. 4: Conceptual model of cloud cover’s response to aerosol perturbation.
From: Substantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover
The responses of cloud cover to 30% increase in Nd depend on meteorology conditions and cloud regimes. The Holuhraun study in ref. 6 represents a more generalized analogy for the global cloud regime spectrum, whereas this study represents a cloud regime spectrum for tropical marine clouds that could potentially be used for marine cloud brightening; they are all marked in the figure. The colour gradation from blue to red demonstrates the effecacy of MCB, with cooling in blue but warming in red. The effective meteorology regime for MCB is highlighted in blue.
