The findings, Gössling said, suggest that the sharp drop of low-elevation cloud cover over some ocean regions could account for most of the sudden spike of global temperatures in 2023, when the ...

A decrease in clouds at low altitudes may help explain 2023’s global temperature surge. Skip to content. ... “When upper ocean layers become less deep, they warm more easily. ...

Clouds over the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise in Lido Beach, New York, September 23, 2022. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters. ... Low clouds also feed into this effect as they reflect away sunlight.

Waves are constantly breaking in the ocean, spewing massive volumes of biological shrapnel ... produce aerosols and thus low-lying clouds that hover above forests. This happens because monoterpenes ...

They identified a decline in low-altitude clouds, specifically over parts of the Atlantic Ocean. This trend is consistent with the extreme 2023 temperatures seen in those same regions.

The main reason for this record-low cloud reflectivity was a significant decrease in low-altitude cloud cover, particularly over the Atlantic Ocean. These clouds usually reflect a lot of sunlight ...

The low marine clouds that often cover big tracts of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica are a wild card in the climate system because scientists don’t fully understand how they will react to ...

MANILA — A cloud cluster over the Pacific Ocean developed into a low press area (LPA) before dawn on Friday, the state weather bureau said. The LPA was spotted 2,040 kilometers east of Eastern ...

The drop in low-level clouds had been averaging about 1.3 percent per decade. 2023 saw a slightly larger drop occur in just one year. The researchers calculate that this could account for all of ...

The findings, Gössling said, suggest that the sharp drop of low-elevation cloud cover over some ocean regions could account for most of the sudden spike of global temperatures in 2023, when the ...