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Calipso observations of aerosol properties near clouds
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Marshak, Alexander Varnai Sr., Tamas Yang, Weidong |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Clouds are surrounded by a transition zone of rapidly changing aerosol properties. Characterizing this zone is important for better understanding aerosol-cloud interactions and aerosol radiative effects as well as for improving satellite measurements of aerosol properties. We present a statistical analysis of a global dataset of CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) Lidar observations over oceans. The results show that the transition zone extends as far as 15 km away from clouds and it is ubiquitous over all oceans. The use of only high confidence level cloud-aerosol discrimination (CAD) data confirms the findings. However, the results underline the need for caution to avoid biases in studies of satellite aerosol products, aerosol-cloud interactions, and aerosol direct radiative effects. |
| File Size | 429310 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20100026398 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6xw9dc7g |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-07-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Statistical Analysis Oceans Bias Aerosols Clouds Meteorology Satellite Observation Infrared Radar Optical Radar Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
