Active and Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to organize a special issue of “Active and Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds” in the journal of Remote Sensing.

With the increase of anthropogenic emission, radiative forcing from aerosol-cloud interactions have become one of the most uncertain factors in the estimation of the Earth’s changing energy budget and then climate change. In addition, aerosol emission, transportation and chemical composition affect air quality which is important to peoples health. However, the detailed understanding of aerosols and clouds is still insufficient by the limited observations and retrieval algorithms. So it is urgent to promote remote sensing methods to increase the comprehensive observations of three dimensional aerosols and clouds characteristics, further reveal the variation of aerosols and clouds as well as the physical mechanism of the interaction between them. Therefore, the main goal of this special issue is to survey the advanced active and passive remote sensing methods, for determining or understanding the detailed information of aerosols and clouds, their impacts on radiation, precipitation, climate, environment and peoples health from regional to global scales. Advanced active and passive sensors (such as lidar, radar, and Hyper-spectral optical sensor) and related retrieval algorithm for ground-based, airborne, and space-based observation are all encouraged. Also, the impacts of aerosol and cloud on air pollution, climate change and human health based on remote sensing are welcome. Furthermore, data fusion and assimilation approaches for acquiring new data with higher accuracy and temporal and spatial resolution are encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Wei Gong
Prof. Dr. Feiyue Mao
Prof. Dr. Siwei Li
Prof. Dr. Wei Wang
Guest Editors

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