Special Issue "Properties of Cirrus Cloud by Lidars: Observation and Theory"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 9 June 2023 | Viewed by 2076
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lidar remote sensing climate change air quality detectors experimental physics climatology remote sensing geophysics optics atmospheric physics
Interests: scattering; climatology; optics; photonics; atmosphere; meteorology; optics and photonics; optical physics; diffraction; applied optics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cirrus clouds cover over 30% of the Earth’s surface and have a significant impact on the radiative budget of our planet and, consequently, on the climate. The radiative characteristics of cirrus clouds (coefficients of scattering and extinction, as well as phase functions and scattering matrixes for various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation) and microphysical aspects (i.e., number density, size, shape and spatial orientation of the ice crystals) must be studied because of the strong spatial and temporal variability of the clouds. A lack of knowledge concerning the radiative characteristics of cirrus clouds is one of the main sources of uncertainty in modern numerical models of the Earth’s radiative balance. Therefore, a number of international groups have dedicated their research to cirrus cloud characteristics over the course of the last 20 years. In this Special Issue, studies on the microphysical and radiative characteristics of cirrus clouds are welcomed, either via direct data collection from aircrafts or by ground-based lidar and radar soundings, as well as the remote sensing of cirrus clouds from satellites. Additionally, the numerical calculation of the optical characteristics of cirrus clouds, the microphysical characteristics of cirrus clouds, comparisons of experimental data with data banks obtained from theoretical calculations, and the parametric use of cirrus clouds for improving models are all appropriate research topics.
Dr. Zhenzhu Wang
Dr. Alexander Konoshonkin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cirrus clouds
- ice crystals
- lidars
- radars
- optics
- microphysics
- scattering characteristics
- theoretical calculations
- modeling
