Newswise — The Arctic is warming two to three times faster than the global average, while shrinking sea ice and snow are changing surface reflectivity and solar-energy absorption. Clouds can cool the surface by reflecting sunlight or warm it by trapping longwave radiation, making cloud an important control on Arctic amplification. Yet detecting clouds is unusually difficult over bright snow and ice, at high solar zenith angles, and during polar night. Sparse…
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