Revisiting the physics of clouds

重温云的物理学：这个奖学金项目旨在通过提高我们对云和风暴等关键现象的理解，为气候建模带来新的严谨性。地球的气候在近代和地质学上发生了许多变化，到目前为止还不能在模型中重现。云和大气湍流也是天气和气候预测的一个问题，现在对它的概念性理解有明显的缺陷。这个项目的假设是，这两个问题是密切相关的，这种联系可能会被利用来解决跨学科的问题。该项目旨在系统地重新评估我们对云物理学的概念性理解，并研究这如何影响我们对地球过去和未来气候现象的理解。

Revisiting the physics of clouds: This fellowship project aims to bring new rigour to climate modelling by improving our understanding of key phenomena like clouds and storms. Earth’s climate has taken a number of turns in the recent and geologic past that so far cannot be reproduced in models. Clouds and atmospheric turbulence are also a problem for weather and climate prediction, the conceptual understanding of which now has evident flaws. The hypothesis of this project is that these two problems are strongly linked, and that this link may be exploited to solve problems across disciplines. This project aims to systematically re-evaluate our conceptual understanding of cloud physics, and investigate how this affects our understanding of climate phenomena in Earth’s past and future.