2018 journal article
Abrupt cloud clearing of marine stratocumulus in the subtropical southeast Atlantic
SCIENCE, 361(6403), 697-+.
TL;DR:
It is shown that dynamic effects due to atmospheric gravity waves are responsible for the rapid clearing of large areas of subtropical marine low cloud deck, which has implications for the global radiation balance and climate sensitivity.
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Added: October 16, 2018
A shrinking marine refrigerator Low subtropical marine clouds scatter solar radiation back to space and thereby cool the climate system. Most work on understanding changes in the coverage of these types of clouds has focused on the effects of sea surface temperatures or on aerosols. Yuter et al. show that dynamic effects due to atmospheric gravity waves are responsible for the rapid clearing of large areas of these clouds. This phenomenon also has implications for marine ecology and biogeochemistry. Science , this issue p. 697