Aerosols, clouds and precipitation The climate multiphase system

1 Aerosols, clouds and precipitation The climate multiphase system 

Interactions among aerosols, clouds and precipitation are critical to shaping the climate system. Aerosols, cloud and precipitation are intrinsically linked (Figs. 4.8 

Disciplinary research on many individual aspects of the climate system has advanced substantially. But what is needed to study the system as a whole with attention to all the pertinent scales Another permanent question is to what extent we are able to understand the whole system. It is more likely to believe that a full understanding remains the goal in science and philosophy. Our present limited understanding of the climate and aerosol-eloud-precipitation system, however, is sufficient to establish an urgent challenge for elimate control measures as suggested in Chapter 2.8.4.2. 

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