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Shallow clouds are the nemesis of climate modelers. Help us by detecting cloud organization from satellite images.
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Shallow clouds are thin whisks of condensed water that cover large parts of the world's oceans. They are crucially important for the Earth's energy balance because they reflect solar radiation that would otherwise heat our atmosphere. For this reason, it is vital to find out how shallow clouds will change in a warming climate. Unfortunately, modeling them turns out to be a nightmare. Their thinness makes it hard for climate models to resolve all important features. As a result, their behavior has to be approximated. This is difficult, however, because shallow clouds can organize in very different ways.