{"id":75455,"date":"2024-12-04T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=75455"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:53:40","slug":"clouds-climate-change-juliet-pilewskie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/clouds-climate-change-juliet-pilewskie\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Clouds Contribute to Climate Change? 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This Scientist Wants to Find Out<\/h1>\r\n            \r\n            <p>At Columbia University, Juliet Pilewskie is studying how clouds and the environment exchange energy, a longtime mystery.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"entry-meta\">\r\n                <time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2024-12-04T13:02:00+00:00\">December 4, 2024<\/time>\r\n\r\n                                                    <div class=\"author-meta\">\r\n                        <div class=\"author_thumbnail\">\r\n                                                                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/156.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Hansen\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" class=\"photo\" \/>\r\n                                                    <\/div>\r\n                        <span>\r\n                            <span class='by'>By <\/span>\r\n                            <a 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breakthroughs in understanding severe storms requires creativity and community. In collaboration with researchers around the world, she studies storm systems and how they are changing over time, to increase certainty in climate models. Better data on how the climate is shifting are critical to assessing risk, engaging the public and developing targeted climate policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up out West, STEM subjects were highly regarded in Pilewskie\u2019s household, and she was deeply influenced by her mother, who is an economist, and her father, an atmospheric scientist at University of Colorado Boulder. But she also brought a mind filled with imagination to the scientific fields.\u201cEarly on, I took it upon myself to grow a deep appreciation for physics and math,&#8221; she says, &#8220;and how similar they are to art in how creative one can be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After studying physics and planetary science at CU Boulder, Pilewskie decided to pursue a career in atmospheric science. \u201cI had this feeling, this deep need, to apply my interest toward more humanitarian and advocate-focused research,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I felt like climate research was where I wanted to go because it incorporates all these different aspects that I was really interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_b0d704f4befdf57a86c72877a2b3288f\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/2024-women-in-science-incentive-prize-winners\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018_California_Wildfires-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018_California_Wildfires-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018_California_Wildfires-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018_California_Wildfires-84x84.jpg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2018_California_Wildfires-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/2024-women-in-science-incentive-prize-winners\/\">\n              Announcing Our Women In Science Incentive Prize Winners\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>What her PhD advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls an \u201cintense passion for research\u201d has prompted Pilewskie to study the largest source of uncertainty in current climate models: how clouds contribute to climate change. That effect is not well understood because the ways in which clouds and the environment exchange energy are also largely a mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, climate stability relies on balance between the amount of energy Earth receives and the amount it emits. When that delicate equilibrium is disrupted \u2013 meaning that the amount of solar energy coming at the planet is unequal to the amount of energy radiating back into space \u2013 Earth\u2019s climate is thrown off-kilter. (The famous \u201cgreenhouse effect\u201d is one such imbalance.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extreme convective storm systems \u2014 the type of severe thunderstorms Pilewskie studies \u2014 are essential components of that input\/output system, and they play a critical role in the movement of air and water globally. Scientists predict storm system behavior will change due to human-induced climate change, potentially with huge impacts to our daily lives. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to quantify how clouds are influencing Earth\u2019s energy based on their properties,\u201d says Pilewskie, now a postdoctoral research scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m using observations to essentially get a quantifiable estimate of how clouds change with surface warming, in order to use that as a basis for evaluating climate models, to see how far off they are,\u201d she says. Pilewskie does that by using multiple types of satellite observations to arrive at a much more detailed understanding of how clouds grow and function in storm systems worldwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her graduate work, Pilewskie was awarded a NASA FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) fellowship, allowing her to probe an archive of more than 100,000 clouds and other weather phenomena. Through those analyses, Pilewskie developed a method for identifying unique objects and, in the process, is chipping away at the mystery of what drives and impacts extreme storms. \u201cI have hope that increased observations and understanding of the processes will be really important for improving predictions and forecasts,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilewskie also hopes her work will eventually contribute to a United Nations\u2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report. \u201cI would be really excited if the work that I\u2019m doing can be put in this document used for policymakers,\u201d she says. Someday, Pilewskie would like to be an educator and science advisor \u201cdiscussing more locally with people how the Earth is going to change.\u201d Until then, says Pilewskie, \u201cI feel like I\u2019m getting a better understanding of storms on a global scale, which is really cool.\u201d &#x25fc;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_a26fe5a771a57ae18a7fa2f311da6890\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wildfires-spread-disease-onja-davidson-raoelison\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-84x84.jpg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wildfires-spread-disease-onja-davidson-raoelison\/\">\n              Beyond Fire and Smoke, Wildfires Might Just Spread Disease, Too\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Columbia University, Juliet Pilewskie is studying how clouds and the environment exchange energy, a longtime mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":75636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":false,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[22333,22334,19479,19723],"class_list":["post-75455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-climate-science","tag-severe-weather-research","tag-women-in-science","tag-women-in-stem"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do Clouds Contribute to Climate Change? 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