Cloud-aERosol inTeractions & their impActs IN The earth sYstem

Project Information

CERTAINTY

Grant agreement ID: 101137680

DOI

10.3030/101137680

EC signature date 29 October 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 7 213 742,68

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

"Updated ethics management plan #1"

Plan for ethics issues in the project. Dissemination level: This is an internal working document for the CERTAINTY team to facilitate operation of the project that will provided to the European Commission for reporting. This is not a public deliverable.

Ethics management plan

Plan for ethics issues in the project. Dissemination level: This is an internal working document for the CERTAINTY team to facilitate operation of the project that will provided to the European Commission for reporting. This is not a public deliverable.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Website

Project website live

Data Management Plan (2)

"Updated Data Management plan (DMP) #1"

Living document with the DMP.

Data management plan (DMP)

Living document with the DMP.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (34)

High sensitivity of cloud formation to aerosol changes

Author(s): Annele Virtanen, Jorma Joutsensaari, Harri Kokkola, Daniel G. Partridge, Sara Blichner, Øyvind Seland, Eemeli Holopainen, Emanuele Tovazzi, Antti Lipponen, Santtu Mikkonen, Ari Leskinen, Antti-Pekka Hyvärinen, Paul Zieger, Radovan Krejci, Annica M. L. Ekman, Ilona Riipinen, Johannes Quaas, Sami Romakkaniemi
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41561-025-01662-Y

Cloud fraction response to aerosol driven by nighttime processes

Author(s): Geoffrey Pugsley, Edward Gryspeerdt, Vishnu Nair
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2509949122

Efficient ice multiplication from freezing raindrop fragmentation

Author(s): Nils Pfeifer, Bernd Mom, Dmitri Moisseev, Susan Hartmann, Julian Meusel, Corinna Hoose, Maximilian Maahn
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02953-3

Modeling the contribution of leads to sea spray aerosol in the high Arctic

Author(s): Rémy Lapere, Louis Marelle, Pierre Rampal, Laurent Brodeau, Christian Melsheimer, Gunnar Spreen, Jennie L. Thomas
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-24-12107-2024

How tailored climate information affects attitudes towards climate policy and psychological distance of climate change

Author(s): Mira Hulkkonen, Tero Mielonen, Saara Leppänen, Anton Laakso, Harri Kokkola
Published in: npj Climate Action, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2731-9814
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44168-024-00136-Y

Terrestrial and marine sources of ice nucleating particles in the Eurasian Arctic

Author(s): Guangyu Li, André Welti, Arianna Rocchi, Germán Pérez Fogwill, Manuel Dall'Osto, Zamin A. Kanji
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 258, 2025, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00160E

Towards an improved understanding of the impact of clouds and precipitation on the representation of aerosols over the Boreal Forest in GCMs

Author(s): Sini Talvinen, Paul Kim, Emanuele Tovazzi, Eemeli Holopainen, Roxana Cremer, Thomas Kühn, Harri Kokkola, Zak Kipling, David Neubauer, João C. Teixeira, Alistair Sellar, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yang Yang, Jialei Zhu, Srinath Krishnan, Annele Virtanen, Daniel G. Partridge
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-14449-2025

Assessing the global contribution of marine aerosols, terrestrial bioaerosols, and desert dust to ice-nucleating particle concentrations

Author(s): Marios Chatziparaschos, Stelios Myriokefalitakis, Nikos Kalivitis, Nikos Daskalakis, Athanasios Nenes, María Gonçalves Ageitos, Montserrat Costa-Surós, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Maria Kanakidou
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-9085-2025

How does the lifetime of detrained cirrus impact the high-cloud radiative effect in the tropics?

Author(s): George Horner, Edward Gryspeerdt
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-5617-2025

Radiative forcing from the 2020 shipping fuel regulation is large but hard to detect

Author(s): Jianhao Zhang, Yao-Sheng Chen, Edward Gryspeerdt, Takanobu Yamaguchi, Graham Feingold
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-024-01911-9

Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades

Author(s): Thorsten Mauritsen, Yoko Tsushima, Benoit Meyssignac, Norman G. Loeb, Maria Hakuba, Peter Pilewskie, Jason Cole, Kentaroh Suzuki, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Allan, Timothy Andrews, Frida A.‐M. Bender, Jonah Bloch‐Johnson, Alejandro Bodas‐Salcedo, Anca Brookshaw, Paulo Ceppi, Nicolas Clerbaux, Andrew E. Dessler, Aaron Donohoe, Jean‐Louis Dufresne, Veronika Eyring, Kirsten L. Findell, Andrew Gettelman, Jake J. Gristey, Ed Hawkins, Patrick Heimbach, Helene T. Hewitt, Nadir Jeevanjee, Colin Jones, Sarah M. Kang, Seiji Kato, Jennifer E. Kay, Stephen A. Klein, Reto Knutti, Ryan Kramer, June‐Yi Lee, Daniel T. McCoy, Brian Medeiros, Linda Megner, Angshuman Modak, Tomoo Ogura, Matthew D. Palmer, David Paynter, Johannes Quaas, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Mark Ringer, Karina von Schuckmann, Steven Sherwood, Bjorn Stevens, Ivy Tan, George Tselioudis, Rowan Sutton, Aiko Voigt, Masahiro Watanabe, Mark J. Webb, Martin Wild, Mark D. Zelinka
Published in: AGU Advances, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2576-604X
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024AV001636

Secondary ice formation in cumulus congestus clouds: insights from observations and aerosol-aware large-eddy simulations

Author(s): Silvia M. Calderón, Noora Hyttinen, Harri Kokkola, Tomi Raatikainen, R. Paul Lawson, Sami Romakkaniemi
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-14479-2025

Weak influence of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol, cloud, and rain in the wet season of the Amazon rainforest

Author(s): Xuemei Wang, Kenneth S. Carslaw, Daniel P. Grosvenor, Hamish Gordon
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-9685-2025

Vertical distribution of ice nucleating particles over the boreal forest of Hyytiälä, Finland

Author(s): Zoé Brasseur, Julia Schneider, Janne Lampilahti, Ville Vakkari, Victoria A. Sinclair, Christina J. Williamson, Carlton Xavier, Dmitri Moisseev, Markus Hartmann, Pyry Poutanen, Markus Lampimäki, Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Erik S. Thomson, Kristina Höhler, Ottmar Möhler, Jonathan Duplissy
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-24-11305-2024

How the representation of microphysical processes affects tropical condensate in the global storm-resolving model ICON

Author(s): Ann Kristin Naumann, Monika Esch, Bjorn Stevens
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-6429-2025

Organic aerosol enhances boreal forest photosynthesis under cumulus clouds

Author(s): Ekaterina Ezhova, Aino Aarne, Antti Arola, Antti Lipponen, Anna Lintunen, Harri Kokkola, Ilona Ylivinkka, Taina Yli-Juuti, Tuukka Petäjä, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Annele Virtanen, Markku Kulmala
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02539-Z

Using a Machine Learning Approach for Isolating Aerosol Effects on Cloud Droplet Number Concentration in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds

Author(s): Muhammed Irfan, Antti Lipponen, Thomas Kühn, Sami Romakkaniemi, Silvia M. Calderón, Eemeli Holopainen, Annele Virtanen, Antti Arola, Harri Kokkola
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-897X
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025JD043926

Optimizing CCN predictions through inferred modal aerosol composition – a boreal forest case study

Author(s): Rahul Ranjan, Maura Dewey, Liine Heikkinen, Lauri R. Ahonen, Krista Luoma, Paul Bowen, Tuukka Petäjä, Annica M. L. Ekman, Daniel G. Partridge, Ilona Riipinen
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-17275-2025

Large-scale impacts of the 2023 Canadian wildfires on the Northern Hemisphere atmosphere

Author(s): Iulian-Alin Roșu, Rafaila-Nikola Mourgela, Matthew Kasoar, Eirini Boleti, Mark Parrington, Apostolos Voulgarakis
Published in: npj Clean Air, Issue 1, 2025, ISSN 3059-2240
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44407-025-00022-9

Radiative Forcing of Aerosol Emissions Under Alternative Wood Use Scenarios in Finland

Author(s): Aapo Tikka, Muhammed Irfan, Tero Mielonen, Harri Kokkola, Anni Hartikainen, Olli Sippula, Antti Kilpeläinen
Published in: GCB Bioenergy, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1757-1693
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCBB.70041

Reactivity of Benzoylperoxy Radicals with Monoterpenes: One-Step Reaction to Form Low-Volatility Organic Compounds

Author(s): Dominika Pasik, Noora Hyttinen, Siddharth Iyer, Nanna Myllys
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue 59, 2025, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.EST.5C14072

A model study investigating the sensitivity of aerosol forcing to the volatilities of semi-volatile organic compounds

Author(s): Muhammed Irfan, Thomas Kühn, Taina Yli-Juuti, Anton Laakso, Eemeli Holopainen, Douglas R. Worsnop, Annele Virtanen, Harri Kokkola
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-24-8489-2024

How to trace the origins of short-lived atmospheric species: an Arctic example

Author(s): Anderson Da Silva, Louis Marelle, Jean-Christophe Raut, Yvette Gramlich, Karolina Siegel, Sophie L. Haslett, Claudia Mohr, Jennie L. Thomas
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-5331-2025

Small but Notable Influence of Numerical Diffusion on Super Coarse Dust Sedimentation: Insights from UNO3 vs. Upwind Schemes

Author(s): Eleni Drakaki, Sotirios Mallios, Carlos Perez García-Pando, Petros Katsafados, Vassilis Amiridis
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ATMOS16091086

Model analysis of biases in the satellite-diagnosed aerosol effect on the cloud liquid water path

Author(s): Harri Kokkola, Juha Tonttila, Silvia M. Calderón, Sami Romakkaniemi, Antti Lipponen, Aapo Peräkorpi, Tero Mielonen, Edward Gryspeerdt, Timo Henrik Virtanen, Pekka Kolmonen, Antti Arola
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-1533-2025

Lidar observations of cirrus cloud properties with CALIPSO from midlatitudes towards high-latitudes

Author(s): Qiang Li, Silke Groß
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-16657-2025

Weak liquid water path response in ship tracks

Author(s): Anna Tippett, Edward Gryspeerdt, Peter Manshausen, Philip Stier, Tristan W. P. Smith
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-24-13269-2024

Increasing aerosol direct effect despite declining global emissions in MPI-ESM1.2

Author(s): Antoine Hermant, Linnea Huusko, Thorsten Mauritsen
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-24-10707-2024

CALIPSO Overpasses During Three Atmospheric Pollen Events Detected by Hirst-Type Volumetric Samplers in Two Urban Cities in Greece

Author(s): Archontoula Karageorgopoulou, Elina Giannakaki, Christos Stathopoulos, Thanasis Georgiou, Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Ioanna Pyrri, Maria-Christina Gatou, Xiaoxia Shang, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Despoina Vokou, Athanasios Damialis
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ATMOS16030317

Aerosol Background Concentrations Influence Aerosol‐Cloud Interactions as Much as the Choice of Aerosol‐Cloud Parameterization

Author(s): Louis Marelle, Gunnar Myhre, Jennie L. Thomas, Jean‐Christophe Raut
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 52, 2025, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111780

Atmospheric boundary layer in the Atlantic: the desert dust impact

Author(s): Ioanna Tsikoudi, Eleni Marinou, Maria Tombrou, Eleni Giannakaki, Emmanouil Proestakis, Konstantinos Rizos, Ville Vakkari, Holger Baars, Annett Skupin, Ronny Engelmann, Zhenping Yin, Vassilis Amiridis
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-16491-2025

The transport history of African biomass burning aerosols arriving in the remote Southeast Atlantic and their impacts on cloud properties

Author(s): Huihui Wu, Fanny Peers, Jonathan W. Taylor, Chenjie Yu, Steven J. Abel, Paul A. Barrett, Jamie Trembath, Keith Bower, Jim M. Haywood, Hugh Coe
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-16589-2025

On the impact of thunder on cloud ice crystals and droplets

Author(s): Konstantinos Kourtidis, Stavros Stathopoulos, Vassilis Amiridis
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ACP-25-5935-2025

Regional climate imprints of recent historical changes in anthropogenic Near Term Climate Forcers

Author(s): Alba Santos-Espeso, María Gonçalves Ageitos, Pablo Ortega, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Markus G. Donat, Margarida Samso Cabré, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ESD-16-2161-2025

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Modelling Aerosol Effects on Climate : From Organic Volatiles to Cloud Interactions and Radiative Forcing

Author(s): Muhammed irfan
Published in: 2025
Publisher: The Finnish Association for Aerosol Research (FAAR)]. In Report series in aerosol science
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15691800

Conference proceedings (4)

Reconstructing Saharan Dust–Cloud Scenes with WRF-L: Initial Evaluation of Aerosol-Aware Ice Nucleation Schemes

Author(s): Eleni Drakaki, Eleni Marinou, Amin R. Nehrir, Petros Katsafados, Vassilis Amiridis
Published in: COMECAP 2025, 2025
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/EESP2025035021

Studying the Pre-Industrial to Present-Day Effective Radiative Forcing from Wildfire Emissions Using EC-Earth

Author(s): Rafaila-Nikola Mourgela, Iulian-Alin Roșu, Eirini Boleti, Manolis P. Petrakis, Konstantinos Seiradakis, Angelos Gkouvousis, Philippe Le Sager, Klaus Wyser, Bingqing Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Apostolos Voulgarakis
Published in: COMECAP 2025, 2025
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/EESP2025035023

T-matrix simulations of Spectral Polarimetric Variables from a cloud-radar

Author(s): Tsikoudi, I., Battaglia, A., Unal, C., Voudouri, K. A., & Marinou, E.
Published in: European conference on RADar in meteorology and hydrology (ERAD), Rome, Italy., 2024
Publisher: ERAD
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14039434

Response of Aerosols and Tropospheric Gases to Wildfire Emission Scenarios

Author(s): Manolis P. Petrakis, Eirini Boleti, Rafaila-Nikola Mourgela, Konstantinos Seiradakis, Iulian Alin Roșu, Apostolos Voulgarakis
Published in: COMECAP 2025, 2025
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/EESP2025035016