East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols and their Impact on Regional Clouds, Precipitation, and Climate (EAST‐AIRCPC)

Z Li, Y Wang, J Guo, C Zhao, MC Cribb… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols have significant and complex impacts on regional climate in East Asia. Cloud‐
aerosol‐precipitation interactions (CAPI) remain most challenging in climate studies. The …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution retrieval of cloud microphysical properties and surface solar radiation using Himawari-8/AHI next-generation geostationary satellite

H Letu, K Yang, TY Nakajima, H Ishimoto… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Optical properties of clouds and heavy aerosol retrieved from satellite measurements are the
most important elements for calculating surface solar radiation (SSR). The Himawari …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieval of cloud microphysical properties from Himawari-8/AHI infrared channels and its application in surface shortwave downward radiation estimation in …

G Tana, X Ri, C Shi, R Ma, H Letu, J Xu, J Shi - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Satellite remote sensing of cloud property retrieval and shortwave downward radiation
(SWDR) estimation is essential for global radiation budget and climate change studies. Sun …

Trans-Pacific transport of dust aerosols from East Asia: Insights gained from multiple observations and modeling

J Guo, M Lou, Y Miao, Y Wang, Z Zeng, H Liu, J He… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
East Asia is one of the world's largest sources of dust and anthropogenic pollution. Dust
particles originating from East Asia have been recognized to travel across the Pacific to …

[HTML][HTML] Surface Solar Radiation Compositions Observed from Himawari-8 / 9 and Fengyun-4 Series

H Letu, R Ma, TY Nakajima, C Shi… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Surface downward solar radiation compositions (SSRC), including photosynthetically active
radiation (PAR), ultraviolet-A (UVA), ultraviolet-B (UVB), and shortwave radiation (SWR) …

A machine learning-based cloud detection algorithm for the Himawari-8 spectral image

C Liu, S Yang, D Di, Y Yang, C Zhou, X Hu… - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2022 - Springer
Cloud Masking is one of the most essential products for satellite remote sensing and
downstream applications. This study develops machine learning-based (ML-based) cloud …

Near-real-time estimation of global horizontal irradiance from Himawari-8 satellite data

Y Tan, Q Wang, Z Zhang - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of global horizontal irradiance (GHI) is not only an essential requirement
of setting up a photoelectric power generation system but also critical information for …

[HTML][HTML] Deriving hourly PM2. 5 concentrations from himawari-8 aods over beijing–tianjin–hebei in China

W Wang, F Mao, L Du, Z Pan, W Gong, S Fang - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Monitoring fine particulate matter with diameters of less than 2.5 μm (PM2. 5) is a critical
endeavor in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region, which is one of the most polluted areas …

Cloud cover over the Tibetan Plateau and eastern China: a comparison of ERA5 and ERA-Interim with satellite observations

Y Lei, H Letu, H Shang, J Shi - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
This study examines the progress made by reanalyses and satellite products in the
estimation of cloud cover over China: the ECMWF reanalyses ERA5 and ERA-Interim …

Intercomparisons of cloud mask products among Fengyun-4A, Himawari-8, and MODIS

X Wang, M Min, F Wang, J Guo, B Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we developed a unified and operational cloud mask algorithm for the new-
generation geostationary (GEO) meteorological satellite imagers of the Advanced …