What are the causes of GCM biases in cloud, aerosol, and radiative properties over the Southern Ocean? How can the representation of different processes.

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What are the causes of GCM biases in cloud, aerosol, and radiative properties over the Southern Ocean? How can the representation of different processes (shallow convection, mixed-phase and precipitation processes, aerosols sources/sinks be improved to reduce these biases? What are the climatic implications of these biases? 2. What factors (sources, cloud processes, transport, and dynamics) control the aerosol, CCN, and IN over the Southern Ocean? - To what extent is the Southern Ocean aerosol-cloud system a good proxy for the preindustrial environment? - What controls the seasonal cycle, variability and evolution of aerosol, CCN and IN? - To what extent do wind, sea state and precipitation in Southern Hemisphere affect the CCN and IN? - How does the surface ocean biology and carbon pool affect the CCN and IN composition?

3. What is the differences in aerosol-cloud interactions between the Northern Hemisphere and the more pristine Southern Hemisphere? - What is the origin of the detectable difference in cloud droplet number concentrations in the storm tracks between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? - What is the role of aerosol sources, meteorological influences, oceanic conditions, and SST gradient? - Second indirect effect question (word it properly) 4. What are the characteristics of the boundary layer over the Southern Ocean and how is it impacted by air-sea interaction? - How does the buffer layer form, and what controls its coupling with other layers? - How often are surface aerosols reflective of in-cloud conditions due to a well-mixed boundary layer? 5. What controls the prevalence of supercooled water in the Southern Ocean clouds?  - What are the relative roles of warm, cold and mixed-phase cloud processes in the formation, amount and distribution of precipitation? - Are biogenic particles dominant in the production of ice over the Southern Oceans? - Are the controls of the amounts of supercooled water in Northern and Southern Hemisphere different? - What are roles of primary and secondary ice production processes in Southern Oceans? -

6. What are the main processes involved in the life cycle of frontal cloud systems in the Southern Oceans? - how do frontal systems interact with other cloud systems and structures? - What does vertical structure of aerosols look like during passage of frontal and other synoptic systems and do models represent it? 7. How well do satellite retrievals describe the Southern Ocean clouds, aerosols and meteorology, and to what extent can they be improved? - How can we determine the vertical profile of phase and cloud properties in clouds with supercooled water at the top or in multi-layer clouds? - How does synoptic regime (e.g., cold vs. warm frontal regions) affect air mass and cloud properties and precipitation development, and subsequently retrieval algorithms? Can we characterize and reduce uncertainties in retrieval of cloud properties (re, Nd, LWC) in large zenith angles over Southern Oceans? - How well do we need to be able to detect aerosols to provide useful information about CCN in a pristine environment? How can we improve upon the detection limit of aerosols?