Journal Club

We meet semi-regularly at the AGH Faculty of Physics and Applied CS (building D10, room 7) to discuss Nature and Science papers scoped around environmental and computational scientific research. Join us!

Planned presentations:

• 2026-10-??: Rafał Oszajca
  Crutzen & Arnold 1986 (Nature 324): “Nitric-Acid Cloud Formation in the Cold Antarctic Stratosphere – a Major Cause for the Springtime Ozone Hole”

Past presentations:

• 2026-05-28: Gracjan Adamus
  Perkel 2022 (Nature 603): “Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools”
• 2026-05-14: Michał Wroński
  Żukowski & Stępień 2026 (Science 391): “Poland: No country for PhD researchers”
• 2026-04-16: Alicja Jagielska
  Stevens & Feingold 2009 (Nature 461): “Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system”
• 2026-03-26: Sylwester Arabas
  Kulmala et al. 1997 (Nature 388): “Clouds without supersaturation”
• 2025-12-19: Agnieszka Żaba
  Davis & Sartor 1967 (Nature 215): “Theoretical Collision Efficiencies for Small Cloud Droplets in Stokes Flow”
• 2025-11-21: Michał Wroński
  Shen et al. 2024 (Nature 636): “New particle formation from isoprene under upper-tropospheric conditions”
• 2025-11-07: Daria Klimaszewska
  Perkel 2019 (Nature 572): “Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed”
• 2025-10-17: Sylwester Arabas
  Hallett & Mossop 1974 (Nature 249): “Production of secondary ice particles during the riming process”
• 2025-06-04: Daria Klimaszewska
  Schaefer 1941 (Science 93): “A method for making snowflake replicas”
• 2025-05-21: Ola Strząbała
  Aitken et al. 1880 (Nature 23): “On dust, fogs and clouds”
• 2025-04-30: Agnieszka Żaba
  Topping et al. 2013 (Nature Geoscience 6): “Cloud droplet number enhanced by co-condensation of organic vapours”
• 2025-02-21: Emma Ware
  Slingo 1990 (Nature 343): “Sensitivity of the Earth’s radiation budget to changes in low clouds”
• 2025-01-24: Michał Wroński
  Rosenfeld et al. 2019 (Science 363): “Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds”
• 2025-01-10: Sylwester Arabas
  Picciotto et al. 1960 (Nature 187): “Isotopic Composition and Temperature of Formation of Antarctic Snows”

Nature & Science papers on clouds to choose from (please report what to add):

• 1880s:
  • ✔ Aitken 1880 (Nature 23): “On Dust, Fogs, and Clouds”
  • ✔ Groneman 1881 (Nature 23): “On Dust, Fogs, and Clouds”
  • ✔ Aitken 1881 (Nature 23): “Dust, Fogs, and Clouds”
  • Russell 1881 (Nature 23): “Dust and Fogs”
  • Preece 1881 (Nature 23): “On Dust, Fogs, and Clouds”
  • De Fonvielle 1882 (Nature 25): “Rime Cloud observed in a Balloon”
  • Kopp 1882 (Nature 26): “How may Clouds consisting of Liquid or of Frozen Water be Distinguished?”
  • Giglioli 1883 (Nature 28): “On the Condensation of Vapour from the Fumaroles of the Solfatara of Pozzuoli”
  • Aitken 1886 (Nature 33): “(Mr. Aitken) On dew”
  • Leslie 1886 (Nature 34): “Luminous Clouds”
• 1890s:
  • H. 1891 (Nature 44): “Rain-making Experiments”
  • Russell & Watson 1981 (Nature 45): “Town Fogs and their Effects”
  • Rankin 1982 (Nature 45): “Dust Counting on Ben Nevis”
  • Bidwell 1893 (Nature 49): “The Cloudy Condensation of Steam”
  • Aitken 1894 (Nature 49): “The Cloudy Condensation of Steam”
  • Barus 1894 (Nature 49): “The Cloudy Condensation of Steam”
  • Bidwell 1894 (Nature 49): “The Cloudy Condensation of Steam”
• 1900s:
  • Wilson 1900 (Nature 62): “Atmospheric Electricity”
  • Aitken 1909 (Nature 82): “Atmospheric Cloudy Condensation”
• 1910s:
  • Gold 1910 (Nature 83): “The Temperature Conditions in Clouds”
  • Palmer 1910 (Nature 83): “The Temperature Conditions within Clouds”
  • Aitken 1911 (Nature 87): “Rainless Thunderstorms”
  • Rayleigh 1912 (Nature 90): “Breath Figures”
  • Aitken 1913 (Nature 90): “Breath Figures”
• 1920s:
  • Nolan 1924 (Nature 114): “Dust in the Atmosphere”
  • Malzev 1926 (Nature 118): “Luminous Night Clouds”
  • Cohen 1929 (Nature 124): “Dew: Does it Rise or Fall?”
• 1930s:
  • Hogg 1931 (Nature 128): “Aitken Condensation Nuclei”
  • Banerji & Lele 1932 (Nature 130): “Electric Charges on Rain Drops”
  • 1935 (Nature 135): “News: Natural and Artificial Clouds”
  • 1937 (Nature 137): “News: Natural and Artificial Clouds”
• 1940s:
  • ✔ Schaefer 1941 (Science 93): “A method for making snowflake replicas”
  • Schaefer 1942 (Nature 149): “Use of snowflake replicas for studying winter storms”
  • Cwilong 1945 (Nature 155): “Sublimation in a Wilson Chamber”
  • Frank 1946 (Nature 157): “Molecular Structure of Deeply Super-cooled Water”
  • Schaefer 1946 (Science 104): “The Production of Ice Crystals in a Cloud of Supercooled Water Droplets”
  • King et al. 1948 (Nature 162): “Artificial stimulation of rain”
  • Fournier D’Albe 1948 (Nature 162): “Condensation of Water Vapour Below 0°C”
  • Smith-Johannsen 1948 (Science 108): “Some Experiments in the Freezing of Water”
  • Brewer & Palmer 1949: “Condensation Processes at Low Temperatures, and the Production of New Sublimation Nuclei by the Splintering of Ice”
• 1950s:
  • Houghton 1959 (Science 129): “Cloud Physics”
  • Isono, Komabayasi & Ono 1959 (Nature, 183): “Volcanoes as a source of atmospheric ice nuclei”
• 1960s:
  • ✔ Picciotto et al. 1960 (Nature 187): “Isotopic composition and temperature of formation of Antarctic snows”
  • Craig 1961 (Science 133): “Isotopic Variations in Meteoric Waters”
  • Fletcher 1961 (Science 134): “Freezing Nuclei, Meteors, and Rainfall”
  • Fookes et al. 1962 (Nature 196): “A Radioisotope Technique for Tracing Air Movements in Clear Air and in Clouds”
  • Schaefer 1966 (Science 154): “Ice nuclei from automobile exhaust and iodine vapor”
  • ✔ Davis & Sartor 1967 (Nature 215): “Theoretical Collision Efficiencies for Small Cloud Droplets in Stokes Flow”
  • Hogan 1967 (Science 158): “Ice nuclei from direct reaction of iodine vapor with vapors from leaded gasoline”
• 1970s:
  • Schnell & Vali 1972 (Nature 236): “Atmospheric Ice Nuclei from Decomposing Vegetation”
  • ✔ Hallett & Mossop 1974 (Nature 249): “Production of secondary ice particles during the riming process”
  • Mossop & Hallett 1974 (Science 186): “Ice Crystal Concentration in Cumulus Clouds: Influence of the Drop Spectrum”
• 1980s:
  • Pruppacher & Klett 1980 (Nature 284): “Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation” (book notice, next to a notice on “Atmospheric Physics” by Iribarne & Cho)
  • Hall et al. 1980 (Nature 285): “Rain drop sizes and rainfall rate measured by dual-polarization radar”
  • Bohren 1982 (Science 216): “Nonrandom Bubbles”
  • Joussaume et al. 1984 (Nature 311): “A general circulation model of water isotope cycles in the atmosphere”
  • Coakley et al. 1987 (Science 237): “Effect of Ship-Stack Effluents on Cloud Reflectivity”
  • ✔ Crutzen & Arnold 1986 (Nature 324): “Nitric-Acid Cloud Formation in the Cold Antarctic Stratosphere – a Major Cause for the Springtime Ozone Hole”
  • Charlson et al. 1987 (Nature 326): “Oceanic phytoplankton, atmospheric sulphur, cloud albedo and climate”
  • Roeckner et al. 1987 (Nature 329): “Cloud optical depth feedbacks and climate modelling”
  • Coakley et al. 1987 (Science 237): “Effect of Ship-Stack Effluents on Cloud Reflectivity”
  • Ochs III & Czys 1987 (Nature 327): “Charge effects on the coalescence of water drops in free fall”
  • Gervat et al. 1988 (Nature 333): “Field evidence for the oxidation of SO₂ by H₂O₂ in cap clouds”
  • Schlesinger 1988 (Nature 335): “Negative or positive cloud optical depth feedback?”
  • Schlesinger 1988 (Nature 336): “How to make models for behaviour of clouds”
  • Illingworth 1988 (Nature 336): “The formation of rain in convective clouds”
  • Schwartz 1988 (Nature 336): “Are global cloud albedo and climate controlled by marine phytoplankton?”
  • Chandler et al. 1988 (Nature 336): “Measurements of H₂O₂ and SO₂ in clouds and estimates of their reaction rate”
  • Ramanathan et al. 1989 (Science 243): “Cloud-Radiative Forcing and Climate: Results from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment”
  • Albrecht 1989 (Science 245): “Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness”
  • Cess et al. 1989 (Science 245): “Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models”
  • Wigley 1989 (Nature 339): “Possible climate change due to SO₂-derived cloud condensation nuclei”
  • Mitchell et al. 1989 (Nature 341): “CO₂ and climate: a missing feedback?”
  • Beard, Ochs III & Kubesh 1989 (Nature 342): “Natural oscillations of small raindrops”
• 1990s:
  • ✔ Slingo 1990 (Nature 343): “Sensitivity of the Earth’s radiation budget to changes in low clouds”
  • Baker & Charlson 1990 (Nature 345): “Bistability of CCN concentrations and thermodynamics in the cloud-topped boundary layer”
  • Latham 1990 (Nature 347): “Control of global warming?”
  • Charlson et al. 1990 (Nature 348): “Sulphate aerosol and climate”
  • Charlson 1992 (Science 255): “Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols”
  • Różański et al. 1992 (Science 258): “Relation Between Long-Term Trends of Oxygen-18 Isotope Composition of Precipitation and Climate”
  • Novakov & Penner 1993 (Nature 365): “Large contribution of organic aerosols to cloud-condensation-nuclei concentrations”
  • Kaufman & Tanré 1994 (Nature 369): “Effect of variations in super-saturation on the formation of cloud condensation nuclei”
  • Pincus & Baker 1994 (Nature 372): “Effect of precipitation on the albedo susceptibility of clouds in the marine boundary layer”
  • ✔ Kulmala et al. 1997 (Nature 388): “Clouds without supersaturation”
  • Chuang et al. 1997 (Nature 390): “Kinetic limitations on droplet formation in clouds”
  • Baker 1997 (Science 276): “Cloud microphysics and climate”
  • Facchini et al. 1999 (Nature 401): “Cloud albedo enhancement by surface-active organic solutes in growing droplets”
  • Langenberg 1999 (Nature/news): “Soapy droplets, brighter clouds”
• 2000s:
  • Koop et al. 2000 (Nature 406): “Water activity as the determinant for homogeneous ice nucleation in aqueous solutions”
  • Rosenfeld 2000 (Science 287): “Suppression of Rain and Snow by Urban and Industrial Air Pollution”
  • Ackerman 2000 (Science 288): “Reduction of Tropical Cloudiness by Soot”
  • Griffith et al. 2000 (Science 300): “Detection of Daily Clouds on Titan”
  • Rosenfeld and Woodley 2000 (Nature 405): “Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 °C”
  • Liu & Daum 2002 (Nature 419): “Indirect warming effect from dispersion forcing”
  • Falkovich et al. 2002 (Nature 419): “Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence”
  • Rosenfeld et al. 2002 (Science 297): “The Role of Sea Spray in Cleansing Air Pollution over Ocean via Cloud Processes”
  • Webster & Heymsfield 2003 (Science 302): “Water Isotope Ratios D/H, ¹⁸O/¹⁶O, ¹⁷O/¹⁶O in and out of Clouds Map Dehydration Pathways”
  • Andreae et al. 2004 (Science 303): “Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon”
  • Koren et al. 2004 (Science 303): “Measurement of the Effect of Amazon Smoke on Inhibition of Cloud Formation”
  • Fridlind et al. 2004 (Science 304): “Evidence for the Predominance of Mid-Tropospheric Aerosols as Subtropical Anvil Cloud Nuclei”
  • Penner et al. 2004 (Nature 427): “Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect”
  • Ackerman et al. 2004 (Nature 432): “The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing”
  • Sastry 2005 (Nature 438): “Ins and outs of ice nucleation”
  • Dusek et al. 2006 (Science 312): “Size matters more than chemistry for cloud-nucleating ability of aerosol particles”
  • Abbatt et al. 2006 (Science 313): “Solid Ammonium Sulfate Aerosols as Ice Nuclei: A Pathway for Cirrus Cloud Formation”
  • Peter et al. 2006 (Science 314): “When Dry Air Is Too Humid”
  • Worden et al. 2007 (Nature 445): “Importance of rain evaporation and continental convection in the tropical water cycle”
  • Rosenfeld et al. 2008 (Science 321): “Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?”
  • Koren et al. 2008 (Science 321): “Smoke invigoration versus inhibition of clouds over the Amazon”
  • Schaller et al. 2009 (Nature 460): “Storms in the tropics of Titan”
  • ✔ Stevens & Feingold 2009 (Nature 461): “Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system”
• 2010s
  • Feingold et al. 2010 (Nature 466): “Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields”
  • Bodenschatz et al. 2010 (Science 327): “Can We Understand Clouds Without Turbulence?”
  • Schneider et al. 2012 (Nature 481): “Polar methane accumulation and rainstorms on Titan from simulations of the methane cycle”
  • Stevens & Boucher 2012 (Nature 490): “The aerosol effect”
  • Atkinson et al. 2013 (Nature 498): “The importance of feldspar for ice nucleation by mineral dust in mixed-phase clouds”
  • Carlslaw et al. 2013 (Nature 503): “Large contribution of natural aerosols to uncertainty in indirect forcing”
  • Stevens 2013 (Nature 503): “Uncertain then, irrelevant now”
  • Cziczo et al. 2013 (Science 340): “Clarifying the Dominant Sources and Mechanisms of Cirrus Cloud Formation”
  • Koren et al. 2014 (Science 344): “From aerosol-limited to invigoration of warm convective clouds”
  • Gramling 2015 (Science News): “Tiny sea creatures are making clouds over the Southern Ocean”
  • Russell 2015 (Nature 525): “Sea-spray particles cause freezing in clouds”
  • Schiermeier 2015 (Nature 520): “Climatologists to physicists: your planet needs you”
  • Wilson et al. 2015 (Nature): “A marine biogenic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles”
  • Witze 2016 (Nature 529): “Antarctic clouds studied for first time in five decades”
  • Dunne et al. 2016 (Science 345): “Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements”
  • Ruehl et al. 2016 (Science 351): “An interfacial mechanism for cloud droplet formation on organic aerosols”
  • Noziere 2016 (Science 351): “Don’t forget the surface”
  • Tan et al. 2016 (Science 352): “Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity”
  • Malavelle et al. 2017 (Nature 546): “Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions”
  • Ovadnevaite et al. 2017 (Nature 546): “Surface tension prevails over solute effect in organic-influenced cloud droplet activation”
  • Lohmann & Gasparini 2017 (Science 357): “A cirrus cloud climate dial?”
  • Fan et al. 2018 (Science 359): “Substantial convection and precipitation enhancements by ultrafine aerosol particles”
  • Yuter et al. 2018 (Science 361): “Abrupt cloud clearing of marine stratocumulus in the subtropical southeast Atlantic”
  • ✔ Rosenfeld et al. 2019 (Science 363): “Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water of oceanic low-level clouds”
• 2020s
  • Fedorova et al. 2020 (Science 367): “Stormy water on Mars: The distribution and saturation of atmospheric water during the dusty season”
  • Palmer 2020 (Nature 582): “Short-term tests validate long-term estimates of climate change”
  • Abbott & Cronin 2021 (Science 371): “Aerosol invigoration of atmospheric convection through increases in humidity”:
  • Sullivan & Voigt 2021 (Nature Comm. Earth. Environ. 2): “Ice microphysical processes exert a strong control on the simulated radiative energy budget in the tropics”
  • Glassmeier et al. 2021 (Science 371): “Aerosol-cloud-climate cooling overestimated by ship-track data”
  • Kalita et al. 2023 (Nature 620): “Microstructure and crystal order during freezing of supercooled water drops”
  • Allwayin et al. 2024 (Science 384): “Locally narrow droplet size distributions are ubiquitous in stratocumulus clouds”
  • Toll et al. 2024 (Science 386): “Glaciation of liquid clouds, snowfall, and reduced cloud cover at industrial aerosol hot spots”
  • Shen et al. 2024 (Nature 636): “New particle formation from isoprene under upper-tropospheric conditions”
  • Curtius et al. 2024 (Nature 636): “Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphere”
  • Zhang et al. 2024 (Science 385): “Stratospheric air intrusions promote global-scale new particle formation”
  • Di Girolamo 2025 (Nature 643): “Decadal changes in atmospheric circulation detected in cloud motion vectors”
  • Voigt et al. 2026 (Nature 652): “Substantial aircraft contrail formation at low soot emission levels”