Blaž Gasparini 

Anvil clouds and cirrus clouds​

• Dissecting cirrus clouds: Navigating effects of turbulence on homogeneous ice formation (Kärcher, et al., in review for npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)

• The Cloud Radiative Response to Surface Warming Weakens Hydrological Sensitivity (McGraw et al., 2024, in press)

• Basic physics predicts stronger high cloud radiative heating with warming (Gasparini et al., 2024, GRL)

• Atmospheric cloud-radiative heating in CMIP6 and observations, and its response to surface warming (Voigt et al., 2024, ACP)

• ​Effect of turbulence on upper tropospheric ice supersaturation (Kärcher et al., 2024, JAS)

• Radiative Heating of High-Level Clouds and its Impacts on Climate (Haslehner et al., 2024, JGR-A)

• Clouds and radiatively induced circulations (Dinh et al., 2023, chapter in AGU Monograph on cloud physics and dynamics)

• Opinion: Tropical cirrus — From micro-scale processes to climate-scale impacts (Gasparini et al., 2023, ACP)

• Diurnal differences in tropical anvil cloud evolution (Gasparini et al., 2022, JClim)

• A Lagrangian perspective on tropical anvil cloud lifecycle in present and future climate (Gasparini et al., 2021, JGR-A)

• Observational Evidence that Radiative Heating Modifies the Life Cycle of Tropical Anvil Clouds (Wall et al., 2020, JClim)

• What drives the lifecycle of tropical anvil clouds? (Gasparini et al., 2019, JAMES) 

• The Life Cycle and Net Radiative Effect of Tropical Anvil Clouds (Hartmann et al., 2018, JAMES)

• Cirrus clouds as seen by the CALIPSO satellite data and simulated by ECHAM-HAM model (Gasparini et al., 2018, Journal of Climate)

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Cirrus cloud thinning

• Ausdünnung von Zirren um den Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken? (Gasparini et al., 2023, book chapter in  "Warnsignal Klima: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung?"), pdf

• To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming? (Gasparini et al., 2020, ERL)

• A cirrus cloud climate dial? (Lohmann and Gasparini, 2017, Science)

• Is increasing ice crystal sedimentation velocity in geoengineering simulations a good proxy for cirrus cloud seeding? (Gasparini et al., 2017, ACP)

• Why cirrus cloud seeding cannot substantially cool the planet (Gasparini and Lohmann, 2016, JGR)

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Other

• Do Microplastics Contribute to the Total Number Concentration of Ice Nucleating Particles? (Tatsii et al., accepted, JGR-A)

• Addressing Gaps in Scientific Knowledge Could Improve Accuracy of Climate Intervention Assessments (Eastham et al., in review for JAMES)

• Von Regenmachen zur Klimaintervention - Ein Blick auf die Ideen- und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Climate Engineering (Quante et al., 2023, book chapter in "Warnsignal Klima: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung?"), pdf

• Mixed-phase regime cloud thinning could help restore sea ice (Villanueva et al., 2022, Env. Res. Letters)

• Constraining the impact of dust-driven droplet freezing on climate using cloud top phase observations (Villanueva et al., 2021, Geophys. Res. Lett.)

• Unanticipated Side Effects of Stratospheric Albedo Modification Proposals Due to Aerosol Composition and Phase (Cziczo et al., 2019, Sci. Rep.)

• The impact of recent changes in South Asian anthropogenic emissions of SO2 on sulfate loading in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and the associated radiative changes, (Fadnavis et al., 2019, ACP)

• Potential impact of carbonaceous aerosol on the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) and precipitation during Asian monsoon in a global model simulation (Fadnavis et al., 2017, ACP)