Gaoyuan qixiang, 2023 Cirrus clouds play a significant role in Earth's energy balance and in the hydrological cycle of the atmosphere.In this study， we focus on the period of several years， 2007 to 2010， and the area， the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau， to analyze the generation ...
Kai WANG +4 more
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Shallow cirrus convection – a source for ice supersaturation [PDF]
Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2014 The origin and persistence of high ice supersaturation is still not well understood. In this study, the impact of local dynamics as source for ice supersaturation inside cirrus clouds is investigated.
Peter Spichtinger
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Cirrus cloud retrieval with MSG/SEVIRI using artificial neural networks [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2017 Cirrus clouds play an important role in climate as they tend to warm the Earth–atmosphere system. Nevertheless their physical properties remain one of the largest sources of uncertainty in atmospheric research.
J. Strandgren +3 more
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The Role of Global Thunderstorm Activity in Modulating Global Cirrus Clouds
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Cirrus clouds provide a significant radiative forcing on the Earth's climate system. This paper looks at the connection in space and time between monthly mean lightning activity observed from the Lightning Imaging Sensor on board the International Space ...
J. Saha, C. Price, A. Guha
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Optical and geometrical properties of cirrus clouds in Amazonia derived from 1 year of ground-based lidar measurements [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 Cirrus clouds cover a large fraction of tropical latitudes and play an important role in Earth's radiation budget. Their optical properties, altitude, vertical and horizontal coverage control their radiative forcing, and hence detailed cirrus ...
D. A. Gouveia +6 more
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Observation of cirrus clouds with GLORIA during the WISE campaign: detection methods and cirrus characterization [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2021 Cirrus clouds contribute to the general radiation budget of the Earth and play an important role in climate projections. Of special interest are optically thin cirrus clouds close to the tropopause due to the fact that their impact is not yet well ...
I. Bartolome Garcia +6 more
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The effect of optically thin cirrus clouds on solar radiation in Camagüey, Cuba [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011 The effect of optically thin cirrus clouds on solar radiation is analyzed by numerical simulation, using lidar measurements of cirrus conducted at Camagüey, Cuba. Sign and amplitude of the cirrus clouds effect on solar radiation is evaluated.
B. Barja, J. C. Antuña
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Long-term trend analysis and climatology of tropical cirrus clouds using 16 years of lidar data set over Southern India [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 Sixteen-year (1998–2013) climatology of cirrus clouds and their macrophysical (base height, top height and geometrical thickness) and optical properties (cloud optical thickness) observed using a ground-based lidar over Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E), India,
A. K. Pandit +5 more
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Search for Man-Made Cirrus Contrails over Southeast Asia
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2007 In this study we examine the effect of natural perturbations on cirrus cloud cover in the tropics and we look for possible signal of cirrus contrails in tropical air traffic regions focussing on Southeast Asia, a region that has received much less ...
Christos S. Zerefos +4 more
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Selected topics on the interaction between cirrus clouds and embedded contrails [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 Persistent contrails and natural cirrus clouds often coexist in the upper troposphere and contrails can be embedded within cirrus clouds. The present paper deals with some questions regarding the interaction of cirrus clouds and embedded contrails.
K. Gierens
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