Quantified Objectives for Assessing the Contribution of Low Clouds to Climate Sensitivity and Variability

Anthony D Del Genio1, Steven E Platnick2, Ralf Bennartz3, Stephen A Klein4, Roger Marchand5, Lazaros Oreopoulos2, Robert Pincus6 and Robert Wood7, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States