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Observing cirrus formation and decay with METEOSAT

, 2009
Cirrus clouds have a substantial impact on net radiation and therefore also on climate, but the physical processes involved in cirrus formation and decay are not very well represented in climate and weather prediction models. In-situ formation of natural
Graf, Kaspar, Mannstein, Hermann, Kox, Stephan, Schumann, Ulrich, Mayer, Bernhard   +4 more
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Changes in cirrus cloudiness and their relationship to contrails

, 2001
Condensation trails, or contrails, formed in the wake of high-altitude aircraft have long been suspected of causing the formation of additional cirrus cloud cover.
Doelling, D.R., Doelling, David R., Schumann, U., Gierens, K., Ayers, J. Kirk, Minnis, Patrick, Palikonda, Rabindra, Minnis, P., Schumann, Ulrich, Gierens, Klaus, Ayers, J.K., Palikonda, R.   +11 more
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Changes in Daytime Cirrus Properties From the ISCCP‐H Data Set and Their Impacts on the Radiation Energy Budget

Earth and Space Science
The change in clouds during the day is critical to the Earth's energy balance and climatic evolution. However, there have been relatively few studies on cloud variations at daily timescales, owing to limitations of ground‐ and satellite‐observations ...
Meihua Wang, Jing Su, Xinyi Han, Xingzhu Deng, Nan Peng, Lei Liu   +5 more
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Modeling the Radiative Effect on Microphysics in Cirrus Clouds Against Satellite Observations. [PDF]

J Geophys Res Atmos, 2021
Zeng X, Gong J, Li X, Wu DL.
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Climatology of Cirrus Clouds over Observatory of Haute-Provence (France) Using Multivariate Analyses on Lidar Profiles

Atmosphere
This study aims to achieve the classification of the cirrus clouds over the Observatory of Haute-Provence (OHP) in France. Rayleigh–Mie–Raman lidar measurements, in conjunction with the ERA5 dataset, are analyzed to provide geometrical morphology and ...
Florian Mandija, Philippe Keckhut, Dunya Alraddawi, Sergey Khaykin, Alain Sarkissian   +4 more
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The two faces of cirrus clouds [PDF]

, 2010
Abstract. Low ice crystal concentration and sustained in-cloud supersaturation, commonly found in cloud observations at low temperature, challenge our understanding of cirrus formation. Heterogeneous freezing from effloresced ammonium sulfate, glassy aerosol, dust and black carbon are proposed to cause these phenomena; low updrafts however is required ...
D. Barahona, A. Nenes
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Cirrus cloud properties over Ny-Alesund as retrieved from lidar measurements (2011-2020)

, 2021
The present dataset reports the properties of cirrus clouds over the research site of Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, as retrieved from lidar measurements from 2011 to 2020.
Ritter, Christoph, Nakoudi, Konstantina
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Contrail and Cirrus Observations over Europe from 6 Years of NOAA-AVHRR Data

, 2002
Thin ice clouds – cirrus and contrails – are analysed in a long-term 1 km data set from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Here twice daily data received at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen covering most of Europe over the full lifetime of the ...
Meerkötter, R., Mannstein, H., Wendling, P., Meyer, R.   +3 more
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Radiative effect of thin cirrus clouds in the extratropical lowermost stratosphere and tropopause region [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Cirrus clouds play an important role in the radiation budget of the Earth; nonetheless, the radiative effect of ultra-thin cirrus clouds in the tropopause region and in the lowermost stratosphere remains poorly constrained.
R. Spang, R. Müller, A. Rap
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Intercomparison of multiple years of MODIS, MISR and radar cloud-top heights

, 2005
International audienceRadar cloud-top heights were retrieved at both the Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research, UK (CFARR) and the ARM Southern Great Plain site, USA (SGP), using millimetre wave cloud radars and identical algorithms. The
Clothiaux, EE, Clothiaux, E. E., B. A. Baum, Baum, B. A., Menzel, W. P., Menzel, WP, W. P. Menzel, E. E. Clothiaux, J.-P. Muller, Baum, BA, Naud, C. M., Muller, J.-P., Naud, CM, C. M. Naud, Muller, JP   +14 more
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