Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

Biomass burning (BB) is a significant air pollution source, with global, regional and local
impacts on air quality, public health and climate. Worldwide an extensive range of studies …

The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) version 4.10 (V4) level 2
aerosol data products, released in November 2016, include substantial improvements to the …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

The aerosol products retrieved using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) collection 5.1 Deep Blue algorithm have provided useful information about aerosol …

The collective representation within global models of aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and their
radiative properties remains unsatisfactory. They constitute the largest source of uncertainty …

Although a remarkable reduction in the frequency of sand and dust storms (SDSs) in the
past several decades has been reported over northern China (NC), two unexpected mega …

Cloud drop condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice nuclei (IN) particles determine to a large
extent cloud microstructure and, consequently, cloud albedo and the dynamic response of …

Abstract The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-
wavelength polarization lidar that performs global profiling of aerosols and clouds in the …

The atmospheric science community demands autonomous and quality-assured vertically
resolved measurements of aerosol and cloud properties. For this purpose, a portable lidar …