Our focus is to understand how high-level clouds, cirrus clouds, impact the climate system. Global warming is the climate change we’re the most worried about. We are in the process of doubling the amount of...

We want to understand clouds on a microscopic scale so we can determine the impact on a massive scale.

What happens in this part of the world absolutely affects what happens in another part.

Cirrus clouds are like a blanket. They trap heat in the system. That energy has to escape somehow. If enough energy is trapped and stored in the system, it can escape from the tropical ocean...