Understanding the Roles of Aerosols and Clouds in Environment, Meteorology and Climate with Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

There has been an increasing interest in atmospheric aerosols and clouds given their confirmed impact on meteorology, climate change and air quality, and how there is a large amount of uncertainty brought on by the variability in spatial and temporal distributions of aerosols, as well as aerosol–cloud and aerosol–planetary boundary layer (PBL) interactions. Advanced Lidar remote sensing techniques with different platforms, data quality control schemes and novel retrieval algorithms allow for the yielding of the vertical profiles of aerosol properties with a high temporal resolution at the regional and global scale. These observations have also been employed to further increase the current knowledge of aerosols, clouds or the PBL, as well as their natural and human-driven processes. This Special Issue entitled, “Understanding the Roles of Aerosols and Clouds in Environment, Meteorology and Climate with Advanced Lidar Remote Sensing Techniques”, aims to report any new Lidar technique developments, new retrieval algorithms alongside their applications, featured observations for aerosols, clouds and their processes, and findings on aerosol-cloud and aerosol-planetary boundary layer interactions. Both comprehensive reviews and research articles on aerosol and cloud observations are welcome to be submitted that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Novel instruments;
• Measurement methods and algorithms;
• Vertical profiles of aerosol optical and microphysical properties;
• Aerosol emissions, transport and removal;
• Cloud macro- and micro-physical properties and cloud processes;
• Aerosol–cloud and aerosol–planetary boundary layer (PBL) interactions;
• Spaceborne, airborne, shipborne and ground-based lidar observations for featured areas;
• Measurement campaigns of wildfire;
• Volcanic eruptions;
• Dust storms and extreme air pollution.

Prof. Dr. Xuan Wang
Dr. Longlong Wang
Dr. Yun He
Dr. Zhenping Yin
Guest Editors

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