Frontiers in satellite‐based estimates of cloud‐mediated aerosol forcing

D Rosenfeld, A Kokhanovsky, T Goren… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric aerosols affect the Earth's climate in many ways, including acting as the seeds
on which cloud droplets form. Since a large fraction of these particles is anthropogenic, the …

Deconvolution of boundary layer depth and aerosol constraints on cloud water path in subtropical stratocumulus decks

A Possner, R Eastman, F Bender… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The liquid water path (LWP) adjustment due to aerosol–cloud interactions in marine
stratocumulus remains a considerable source of uncertainty for climate sensitivity estimates …

Spatial aggregation of satellite observations leads to an overestimation of the radiative forcing due to aerosol‐cloud interactions

T Goren, O Sourdeval, J Kretzschmar… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The estimation of cloud radiative forcing due to aerosol‐cloud interactions, RFaci (also
known as the first indirect effect), relies on approximating the cloud albedo susceptibility to …

Ground‐based cloud classification using task‐based graph convolutional network

S Liu, M Li, Z Zhang, X Cao… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Clouds play a significant role in weather forecasts, water cycle, and climate system.
However, existing methods ignore the relations of ground‐based cloud images. In this letter …

Coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped boundary layers: turbulence properties

JL Nowak, H Siebert, KE Szodry… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We compare turbulence properties in coupled and decoupled marine stratocumulus-topped
boundary layers (STBLs) using high-resolution in situ measurements performed by the …

Evaluation of CESM1 (WACCM) free-running and specified dynamics atmospheric composition simulations using global multispecies satellite data records

L Froidevaux, DE Kinnison, R Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We have analyzed near-global stratospheric data (and mesospheric data as well for H 2 O)
in terms of absolute abundances, variability, and trends for O 3, H 2 O, HCl, N 2 O, and HNO …

The behavior of cloud base height over a hilly remote station of North-East India using ground-based remote sensing technique

A Kundu, SS Kundu, SK Sharma, M Gogoi, T Banik… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Impact of clouds and their vertical structures on the radiative budget, hydrological cycle, and
climate is strong but still uncertain. There is a need to monitor and investigate cloud …

Satellite retrieval of cloud base height and geometric thickness of low-level cloud based on CALIPSO

X Lu, F Mao, D Rosenfeld, Y Zhu, Z Pan… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Satellite-based cloud base and top height (CBH and CTH) and cloud geometrical thickness
(CGT) are validated against ground-based lidar measurements and provide new scientific …

Using CALIOP to estimate cloud-field base height and its uncertainty: the Cloud Base Altitude Spatial Extrapolator (CBASE) algorithm and dataset

J Mülmenstädt, O Sourdeval… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
A technique is presented that uses attenuated backscatter profiles from the CALIOP satellite
lidar to estimate cloud base heights of lower-troposphere liquid clouds (cloud base height …

Surface‐atmosphere decoupling prolongs cloud lifetime under warm advection due to reduced entrainment drying

H Zhang, Y Zheng, SS Lee, Z Li - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An initially well‐mixed stratocumulus deck can remain overcast for several tens of hours
under warm‐advection conditions, although moisture supply is cut off from the ocean due to …