Quoted: “Clouds are one of the major feedbacks in cooling and heating the surface” of the ice, said Nate Miller, an atmospheric science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. But it?s not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they?re made of ice or snow, whether they?re thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.
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