Scientists from McGill University have discovered that changes in cloud cover slightly mitigate global warming. While greenhouse gases continue to drive temperature increases, a reduction ...

More information: Liu et al, Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08323-x Provided by McGill University ...

Reflected heat, in the form of long-wave radiation, is trapped in our atmosphere and keeps our planet warm. This is known as the natural greenhouse effect. The diagram below shows this process ...

With those calculations, it is then able to determine energy fluxes, such as shortwave and longwave radiation, soil heat flux, sensible heat flux, and latent heat flux. “The novel aspect of this ...