Progress towards achieving a quantitative understanding of the exchanges of water
between Earth's main water reservoirs is reviewed with emphasis on advances accrued from …

Cirrus clouds are ubiquitous, long-lived, high-level ice clouds that exert a considerable
global radiative effect on the climate system. This review assesses recent observational and …

Although it is well established that cirrus warms Earth, the radiative effect of the entire
spectrum of ice clouds is not well understood. In this study, the role of all ice clouds in Earth's …

Water vapor measurements of midlatitude cirrus clouds, obtained by the WAter vapour Lidar
Experiment in Space (WALES) lidar system during the Mid-Latitude Cirrus (ML-CIRRUS) …

Using the Himawari-8 cloud product, this study investigated the seasonal, monthly, diurnal
variations as well as spatial and vertical distributions of cloud properties over four typical …

We have implemented a parameterization for forming ice in large‐scale cirrus clouds that
accounts for the changes in updrafts associated with a spectrum of waves acting within each …

The outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) emitted to space is a fundamental component of the
Earth's energy budget. There are numerous, entangled physical processes that contribute to …

The complex and diverse cloud vertical distribution (CVD) largely impacts radiative and
precipitation properties of clouds. Using 10‐year active satellite observations, we classified …

The net warming effect of cirrus clouds has driven part of the geoengineering research
toward the idea of decreasing their occurrence frequency by seeding them with efficient ice …

The vertical structure of clouds and its connection with precipitation and cloud radiative
effects (CRE) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are analyzed and compared with its neighboring …