Ice Clouds Over the Asian Monsoon and Their Role in the Global Climate

Explore ice cloud formation and their climate impacts in this 38-minute lecture focusing on the Asian Summer Monsoon system. Discover how this pronounced atmospheric weather system transports moist air masses to high altitudes through strong convection, creating both thin cirrus and thick ice clouds in the coldest regions of the atmosphere. Learn about the dual nature of these ice clouds' effects on climate - potentially warming or cooling - and their crucial role in water vapor transport from the tropical upper troposphere to the Arctic stratosphere. Examine unique aircraft-based observations and simulations that reveal ice cloud properties, formation processes, and evolution patterns over the Asian monsoon region. Benefit from the expertise of Prof. Dr. Martina Krämer, a renowned cloud and aerosol physics scientist who led the "Water Vapour and Clouds" research group at the Research Centre Jülich for over two decades and currently serves as a honorary professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz's Institute of Atmospheric Physics.