Mixed-phase clouds: Progress and challenges

A Korolev, G McFarquhar, PR Field… - Meteorological …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mixed-phase clouds represent a three-phase colloidal system consisting of water vapor, ice
particles, and coexisting supercooled liquid droplets. Mixed-phase clouds are ubiquitous in …

A framework for satellite-based 3D cloud data: An overview of the VIIRS cloud base height retrieval and user engagement for aviation applications

YJ Noh, JM Haynes, SD Miller, CJ Seaman… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Satellites have provided decades of valuable cloud observations, but the data from
conventional passive radiometers are biased toward information from at or near cloud top …

The role of cloud phase in Earth's radiation budget

AV Matus, TS L'Ecuyer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The radiative impact of clouds strongly depends on their partitioning between liquid and ice
phases. Until recently, however, it has been challenging to unambiguously discriminate …

[HTML][HTML] The Arctic cloud puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL multiplatform observations to unravel the role of clouds and aerosol particles in Arctic amplification

M Wendisch, A Macke, A Ehrlich… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the
Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification in: Bulletin of the American …

Cloud detection and classification algorithms for Himawari-8 imager measurements based on deep learning

W Li, F Zhang, H Lin, X Chen, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A deep-learning-based cloud detection and classification algorithm for advanced Himawari
imager (AHI) measurements from the geostationary satellite Himawari-8 has been …

Obtaining cloud base height and phase from thermal infrared radiometry using a deep learning algorithm

Q Wang, C Zhou, H Letu, Y Zhu… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a thermal infrared (TIR)-based convolutional neural network (TIR-CNN),
originally designed for retrieving cloud optical properties from TIR radiometry, is further …

[HTML][HTML] Small-scale structure of thermodynamic phase in Arctic mixed-phase clouds observed by airborne remote sensing during a cold air outbreak and a warm air …

E Ruiz-Donoso, A Ehrlich, M Schäfer… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The combination of downward-looking airborne lidar, radar, microwave, and imaging
spectrometer measurements was exploited to characterize the vertical and small-scale …

Identification of supercooled cloud water by FY-4A satellite and validation by CALIPSO and airborne detection

X Xu, Y Zeng, X Yu, G Liu, Z Yue, J Dai, Q Feng, P Liu… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cold clouds are the main operation target of artificial precipitation enhancement, and its key
is to find a supercooled cloud water area where the catalyst can be seeded to promote the …

A multilayer cloud detection algorithm for the Suomi-NPP Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

J Wang, C Liu, B Yao, M Min, H Letu, Y Yin… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new multilayer (ML) cloud detection algorithm based on three shortwave infrared (SWIR)
and two longwave infrared (LWIR) channels is developed and applied to the Visible Infrared …

Retrieval of ice‐over‐water cloud microphysical and optical properties using passive radiometers

S Teng, C Liu, Z Zhang, Y Wang… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Current satellite cloud products from passive radiometers provide effective single‐layer
cloud properties by assuming a homogeneous cloud in a pixel, resulting in inevitable biases …