Current passive sensors fail to accurately identify cloud phase, thus largely limiting the quantification of radiative contributions and precipitation of different cloud phases over the Tibet Plateau (TP), especially for the mixed-phase and supercool...
The representation of mixed-phase cloud optical properties in models is a critical problem in cloud modeling studies. Ice and liquid water co-existing in a cloud layer result in significantly different cloud optical properties from those of liquid wa...
This paper analyzes the temperature, cloud type, and life stage dependencies of phase partitioning in mixed-phase clouds spanning tropics, midlatitudes, and the Arctic, using data from ground-based remote sensing measurements in Alaska and aircraft m...
The cloud thermodynamic phase is a crucial parameter to understand the Earth’s radiation budget, the hydrological cycle, and atmospheric thermodynamic processes. Spaceborne active remote sensing such as the synergistic radar-lidar DARDAR produc...
The accurate recognition of the cloud phase has a great influence on the retrieval of the cloud top height. In order to improve the accuracy of obtaining the cloud top height with OCO-2, we proposed a cloud phase recognition algorithm based on the th...
The effects of the liquid water content (LWC) and mixing ratio of hydrometeors in the simulation of convective precipitation in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, are investigated using a three-dimensional convective rainstorm model. The microphysical pro...
The cloud-top-phase climatology over the western North Pacific (WNP) has received little attention. Using 3 years (2017–2019) of cloud-top-phase products from the Advanced Himawari Imager onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 satellite, this study examines...
The cloud phase is one of the most important parameters of clouds. In this paper, we propose a method for cloud phase classification that synergistically utilizes the far- and thermal-infrared bands based on the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interfero...
The Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) was an aircraft-based campaign (15 January–26 February 2018) that deployed in situ probes and remote sensors to investigate low-level clouds over the Southern...
Thunderstorms and especially induced lightning discharges have still not been fully understood, although they are known to cause many casualties yearly worldwide. This study aims at filling the gap of knowledge by investigating the potential of phase...
Global cloud thermodynamic phase (CP) is normally derived from polar-orbiting satellite imaging data with high spatial resolution. However, constraining conditions and empirical thresholds used in the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiome...
We perform large-eddy simulations to study a cavitating flow over a two-dimensional hydrofoil section—a scaled-down profile (1:13.26) of guide vanes of a Francis turbine—using the Schnerr–Sauer cavitation model with an adaptive mesh...
The existence of clouds significantly increases or decreases the net radiation of the Earth. The influence of cloud type and cloud phase on radiation is as important as cloud amount, and the physical processes of different types of clouds are obvious...
The present study introduces a two-step extraction methodology that integrates cloud point extraction (CPE) with magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) for the extraction and quantification of amaranth dye. Initially, the dye is extracted using CPE i...
Using CloudSat/CALIPSO satellite data and ERA5 reanalysis data from 2006 to 2010, the effects of aerosols on ice- and mixed-phase, single-layer, non-precipitating clouds over the Tibetan Plateau during nighttime in the MAM (March to May), JJA (June t...
31 January 2026
Mixed-phase clouds, in which liquid droplets and ice crystals coexist at temperatures between
This review paper describes briefly the cloud aqueous phase composition and deeply its reactivity in the dark and mainly under solar radiation. The role of the main oxidants (hydrogen peroxide, nitrate radical, and hydroxyl radical) is presented with...
Snowfall affects the terrestrial climate system at high latitudes through its impacts on local meteorology, freshwater resources and energy balance. Precise snowfall monitoring is essential for cold countries such as Canada, and particularly in tempe...
To address the challenges of automatic detection caused by the variation of surface normal vectors in automotive steering knuckles, an automatic detection method based on ultrasonic phased array technology is herein proposed. First, a point cloud mod...
15 October 2022
In order to achieve a comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impact of ecological restoration projects (ERP) under the current destruction and restoration of coastal ecological areas, this paper takes into account the impact of positive and ne...
The Arctic, characterized by extensive ice and snow cover with persistent low solar elevation angles and prolonged polar nights, poses significant challenges for conventional spectral threshold methods in cloud detection and cloud-top thermodynamic p...
In three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement based on fringe projection, various factors can degrade the quality of the point cloud. Existing point cloud filtering methods involve analyzing the geometric relationship between 3D space and point cloud,...
Most sound imaging instruments are currently used as measurement tools which can provide quantitative data, however, a uniform method to directly and comprehensively evaluate the results of combining acoustic and optical images is not available. Ther...
While mass spectrometry (MS) plays a key role in proteomics research, characterization of membrane proteins (MP) by MS has been a challenging task because of the presence of a host of interfering chemicals in the hydrophobic protein extraction proces...
The measurement of cloud microphysical parameters plays an important role in describing characteristics of liquid phase clouds and investigating mutual relationships between clouds and precipitation. In this paper, cloud microphysical parameters at L...
The decades-long Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Project includes both cloud and radiation measurements from instruments on the Aqua, Terra, and Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellites. To build a reliable l...
Falling mixed-phase virga from a thin supercooled liquid layer cloud base were observed on 20 occasions at altitudes of 2.3–9.4 km with ground-based lidars at Wuhan (30.5 °N, 114.4 °E), China. Polarization lidar profile (3.75-m) analysi...
This study is a follow-up of a full methodology for the homogenisation and harmonisation of the two Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) payloads based on the OLCI-A/OLCI-B tandem phase analysis. This analysis provided cross-calibration factors be...
This study presents a comprehensive comparison of Level 2.0 cloud properties between a Second-generation Global Imager (SGLI) aboard the GCOM-C satellite and a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite, to bette...
The representations of cloud processing of gases and aerosols in some of the current state-of-the-art regional air quality models in North America and Europe are reviewed. Key processes reviewed include aerosol activation (or nucleation scavenging of...
One of the emergencies rescue crews have to face is toxic gas leakages. The characteristics of the gas leakages differ with regard to their leakage duration. Long-term releases have plume-like behaviors that can be described by utilizing mean concent...
Supercooled liquid water (SLW) in mixed-phase clouds significantly influences precipitation efficiency and aviation safety. However, a comprehensive understanding of its vertical structure has been hampered by a lack of sustained, vertically resolved...
Three-dimensional imaging plays a crucial role at the micro-scale in fields such as precision manufacturing and materials science. However, image noise significantly impacts the accuracy of point cloud reconstruction, making image denoising technique...
To investigate the evolution process of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) liquid pool and gas cloud diffusion, the Realizable k-ε model and Eluerian model were used to numerically simulate the liquid phase leakage and diffusion process of LNG storage tanks...
Establishing accurate structure–property linkages and precise phase volume accuracy in 3D microstructure reconstruction of materials remains challenging, particularly with limited samples. This paper presents an optimized method for reconstruct...
The In-Cloud Icing and Large-drop Experiment (ICICLE) flight campaign, led by the United States Federal Aviation Administration, was conducted in the geographical region over US Midwest and Western Great Lakes, between January and March 2019, with th...
We analyze Hayward black holes (BHs) with a negative cosmological constant surrounded by a cloud of strings, which we designate Hayward–Letelier AdS BHs. These solutions can be obtained by coupling the Einstein equations with nonlinear electrod...
FT-ICR MS (Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry) analysis has shown great potential to aid in the understanding of the extremely high molecular diversity of cloud water samples. The main goal of this work was to determine the d...
Supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is a versatile solvent for polymer processing; however, many partially fluorinated polymers exhibit limited solubility in neat scCO2. Organic cosolvents such as toluene can enhance polymer–solvent interactions, thereby...
The topology effects of cyclization on thermal phase transition behaviors were investigated for a series of amphiphilic Pluronic copolymers of both hydrophilic–hydrophobic–hydrophilic and hydrophobic–hydrophilic–hydrophobic bl...
The phase separation behavior of bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (PC), dissolved in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and dichloromethane solvents in coagulant water, was studied by the cloud point method. The respective cloud point data were determined by titration...
Sporadic-E (Es) layers can strongly perturb HF/VHF propagation and create intermittent interference, motivating higher-revisit monitoring at the frequencies most affected. EsTRACE (Es-layer TRAnsient Cloud Explorer) is a PlanarSat mission concept tha...
In order to improve the accuracy of wind power prediction (WPP), we propose a WPP based on multivariate phase space reconstruction (MPSR) and multivariate linear regression (MLR). Firstly, the multivariate time series (TS) are constructed through rea...
The effect of arginine on the phase stability of the hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) has been studied via molecular dynamics computer simulations, as well as experimentally via cloud-point temperature determination. The experiments show that the additi...
The SKA (Square Kilometer Array) radio telescope will become the most sensitive telescope by correlating a huge number of antenna nodes to form a vast array of sensors in a region over one hundred kilometers. Faceting, the wide-field imaging algorith...
The blueberry fruit (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) exhibits a high content of bioactive compounds, including anthocyanins, that can be used as pigmenting agents, but they are mixed with sugars, which can hinder their utilization. The objective was to eval...
For large curved parts with complex surfaces, which often exhibit both symmetry and asymmetry in their geometric features, the multi-view combined with the phase shift method and highlight regions treatment method has been proposed and applied to the...
In cloud-based distributed systems, trace anomaly detection plays a vital role in maintaining system reliability by identifying early signs of performance degradation or faults. However, existing methods often fail to capture the complex temporal and...
Sedimentation is an undesirable phenomenon that complicates the design of microsystems that exploit dense microparticles as delivery tools, especially in biotechnological applications. It often informs the integration of continuous mixing modules, co...
Efficient energy consumption is essential for the development of a smart grid in the power system. As a response, reliable monitoring and management of energy usage is a main priority for the smart grid. The existing energy meter system has a host of...
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