We want to predict the future, but we are currently struggling to predict these clouds!

Clouds play a very important role in our real-life mystery. Clouds both reflect sunlight, which determines the color of the clouds cooling the Earth, and trap heat in the same way as greenhouse gases thus warm the Earth. The net impact of distinctive types of clouds on climate alter depends on which cloud sorts alter, and whether they have gotten to be more or less abundant, thicker or thinner, and higher or lower in elevation.

Many individuals accept that since more water will evaporate from the seas as the climate warms, it'll be cloudier, with thicker and denser clouds. In any case, a warmer air needs more water vapor molecules to ended up saturated and to condense into clouds, so it is difficult to expect precisely how clouds react to human-induced climate perturbations.

Can observations of the current climate give us clues about how clouds will change in the future?

By Combing innovations like satellite perceptions, which keeps an eye on the atmosphere from above, with perceptions from surface-based instruments that see up at the sky from below, to see both sides of the cloud story. A few years back, researchers inspected satellite information measuring the sum of daylight reflected by low-level clouds, i.e., the stratus and stratocumulus decks that produce gray, cloudy days and the puffy cotton-ball cumulus clouds that dot the sky on clearer days. Until then, people had assumed that these low clouds would be brighter and reflect more sunlight wherever the air was warmer because they would be thicker and contain more liquid water. On the contrary other groups of scientists, found that over more than half the Earth, and especially in the warmer places (both in the tropics and in mid-latitude summertime), these clouds were actually brighter when the air was cold than when it was warm.

Clouds can play an important role in slowing global warming by reflecting energy back into space. As temperatures rise, clouds contain more liquid water and fewer ice crystals, making them brighter, meaning they reflect more sunlight.