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Can ERA5 Be Used to Study Mesoscale Convective System Climatological Characteristics?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 10, 28 May 2026.
Abstract Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) produce more than half of tropical rainfall and are central to the global hydrologic cycle. As the climate warms, environments favorable for MCSs may become more common; however, limited observational records hamper understanding of how MCSs respond to variations and changes in their environments.
Stella Heflin, Zhe Feng, L. Ruby Leung, Qiang Fu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cloud Thermodynamic Phase Retrievals From Simultaneous Shortwave Infrared Multi‐Angle Polarization Measurements

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 10, 28 May 2026.
Abstract Accurate identification of cloud thermodynamic phases ‐warm water, supercooled water and ice—is essential for the global energy budget and hydrological cycle, and serves as a crucial prerequisite for retrieving cloud optical and microphysical parameters.
Haofei Wang, Xiaofeng Tan, Kentaroh Suzuki, Peng Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cloud‐Rain Vertical Inconsistency Increases IMERG Precipitation Uncertainty

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 10, 28 May 2026.
Abstract IMERG accuracy is limited by the vertical inconsistency between satellite‐observed cloud‐top information and the true vertical structure of precipitation. Using FY‐3G Precipitation Measurement Radar (PMR) observations as reference and FY‐4B cloud‐top parameters, we investigate the vertical‐structure sources of IMERG retrieval errors during the
Haoqian Zhang, Aoqi Zhang, Yilun Chen
wiley   +1 more source

COCS - Cirrus Optical properties derived from CALIOP and SEVIRI during day and night time

, 2010
Significant progress in cirrus cloud observation has been achieved with spaceborne active remote sensing techniques, e.g. the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard the polar-orbiting Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder ...
Mannstein, Hermann, Kox, Stephan, Ewald, Florian, Mayer, Bernhard   +3 more
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Cirrus parameterisation and the role of ice nuclei. [PDF]

, 2005
A parametrization of cirrus clouds formed by homogeneous nucleation is improved so that it can be used more easily in general-circulation models (GCMs) and climate models.
Ren, C., MacKenzie, Rob
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An Optimized Parameterization of Sub‐Grid Scale Advection for Convection Permitting Models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 9, 16 May 2026.
Abstract Convection‐permitting models (CPMs) explicitly resolve deep convection yet under‐resolve the organized lateral exchanges among drafts and their environment that control entrainment/detrainment, precipitation efficiency, and mesoscale structure.
Samson Hagos, Zhe Feng, Adam C. Varble, Sheng‐Lun Tai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water in cirrus clouds

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1984
Meteorologists from the University of Utah have discovered water droplets as cold as −36°C at the base of cirrus clouds, the coldest temperatures at which liquid water has been confirmed in clouds. Because earlier models of radiation transfer in the atmosphere had assumed that the clouds at cirrus‐layer altitudes (6,000–12,000 m) were composed only of ...
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Nitric acid in cirrus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters, 2006
Uptake of nitric acid (HNO3) in Arctic cirrus ice crystals was observed on 11 February 2003 by in‐situ instruments onboard the M55 Geophysica aircraft. The cirrus cloud with a mean ice water content of 5.4 mg m−3 covered northern Scandinavia for several hours and extended up to the thermal tropopause at 12.3 km.
Voigt, C., Schlager, H., Ziereis, H., Kärcher, B., Luo, B.P., Schiller, C., Krämer, M., Popp, P.J., Irie, H., Kondo, Y.   +9 more
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Dust Decline Amplifies High‐Cloud Ice‐to‐Liquid Transition and Buffers the Radiative Feedback Under Warming

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 9, 16 May 2026.
Abstract The response of the cloud phase to global warming is a critical yet poorly constrained component of Earth's climate sensitivity. While rising temperatures drive a thermodynamic transition from ice to liquid clouds, the role of ice‐nucleating particles in modulating this shift remains underexplored.
Yang Wang, Tianrong Chai, Jiming Li, Lu Feng, Jialing Jian, Jianping Huang, Greg M. McFarquhar   +6 more
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Properties of Cirrus Cloud Observed over Koror, Palau (7.3°N, 134.5°E), in Tropical Western Pacific Region

Remote Sensing
This study presented an analysis of the geometric and optical properties of cirrus clouds with data produced by Compact Cloud-Aerosol Lidar (ComCAL) over Koror, Palau (7.3°N, 134.5°E), in the Tropical Western Pacific region. The lidar measurement dataset
Xiaoyu Sun, Christoph Ritter, Katrin Müller, Mathias Palm, Denghui Ji, Wilfried Ruhe, Ingo Beninga, Sharon Patris, Justus Notholt   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source