The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has profound thermal and dynamic influences on the atmospheric circulation, energy, and water cycles of the climate system, which make the clouds over the TP the forefront of atmospheric and climate science. However, the high...
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite has been continuously providing global environmental data records (EDRs) for more than one decade since its launch in 2011. R...
The characterization of volcanic ash clouds released into the atmosphere during explosive eruptions includes cloud height as a fundamental physical parameter. A novel application is proposed of a method based on parallax data acquired from two geosta...
Tropical overshooting convection has a strong impact on both heat budget and moisture distribution in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, and it can pose a great risk to aviation safety. Cloud-top height is one of the essential concerns of...
Cloud-top heights (CTH), as one of the representative variables reflecting cloud macro-physical properties, affect the Earth–atmosphere system through radiation budget, water cycle, and atmospheric circulation. This study compares the CTH from passiv...
To investigate the characteristics of Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI)-derived products from the UK Met Office algorithm, one year of cloud occurrence frequency (COF) and cloud-top height (CTH) data from May 2013 to April 2014 w...
Cloud top height (CTH) is an essential pareter for the general circulation model in understanding the impact of clouds on the Earth’s radiation budget and global climate change. This paper compares the CTH products, derived from the Moderate Re...
It is well known that the measurement of cloud top height (CTH) is important, and a geostationary satellite is an important measurement method. However, it is difficult for a single geostationary satellite to observe the global CTH, so joint observat...
Cloud Top Height (CTH) is a fundamental parameter in atmospheric science, critically influencing Earth’s radiation budget and hydrological cycle. Satellite-based passive remote sensing provides the primary means of monitoring CTH on a global sc...
In this paper, we introduce a cloud top-height (CTH) retrieval algorithm using simultaneous observations from the Himawari-8 and FengYun (FY)-2E geostationary (GEO) satellites (hereafter, dual-GEO CTH algorithm). The dual-GEO CTH algorithm estimates...
This paper proposes a ResGA-Net algorithm for cloud top height (CTH) retrieval using FY-4A satellite data. The algorithm utilizes genetic algorithms for data selection and employs a residual module-based neural network for modeling. It takes the spec...
Stereoscopic cloud-top height (CTH) retrieval from two geostationary (GEO) satellites is usually realized through a visible (VIS) band with a high horizontal resolution. A stereoscopic-based CTH retrieval algorithm (prototype dual-GEO CTH algorithm)...
The Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) onboard the Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) satellite is the first independently developed satellite-borne lightning imager in China. It enables continuous lightning detection in China and surrounding areas, regardless of weathe...
Tropical cyclone (TC) intensity estimation over the western North Pacific remains affected by uncertainties in satellite observations, best-track records, and rapidly evolving inner-core structures. To further exploit information on cloud-system vert...
The spatial and temporal analysis of the SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) onboard ENVISAT global cloud top height data for 2003–2006 is presented. The cloud top height is derived using a semi-analytica...
In order to enhance the retrieval accuracy of cloud top height (CTH) from MODIS data, neural network models were employed based on Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data. Three types of methods were established using MODIS inp...
Different cloud-top heights (CTHs) have different degrees of atmospheric heating, which is an important factor for weather forecasting and aviation safety. AHIs (Advanced Himawari Imagers) on the Himawari-8 satellite are a new generation of visible a...
Cloud Top Height (CTH), defined as the altitude of the highest cloud layer above mean sea level, is a crucial geophysical parameter for quantifying cloud radiative effects, analyzing severe weather systems, and improving climate models. To enhance th...
In this study, based on the retrieval data from the Fengyun geostationary meteorological satellite and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, a large-scale precipitation case in eastern China is selected to address the systematic deviatio...
This paper documents the preliminary observations and applications of a Ka-band cloud radar newly installed at the Hong Kong International Airport. A special scanning strategy of the cloud radar was developed and is described in detail. The radar pro...
In this study, we investigate the seasonal and diurnal variations in cloud occurrence frequency, as well as cloud vertical structure (CVS) characteristics under different seasons and precipitation intensities over the Guangzhou region in South China,...
Clouds are essential for regulating the hydrological cycle and Earth’s radiation budget, and their fluctuations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have a significant effect on both regional climate dynamics and global atmospheric circulation. Using...
Clouds are important for Earth’s energy budget and water cycles, and precisely characterizing their vertical structure is essential for understanding their impact. Although passive remote sensing offers broad coverage and high temporal resoluti...
The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16) detects total lightning continuously, with a high spatial resolution and detection efficiency. Coincident data from the GLM and the Advance...
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Inventory Satellite (TECIS-1) is a Chinese-developed satellite that employs both active and passive remote sensing technologies for forest carbon monitoring. Equipped with a multi-beam lidar system comprising a laser...
Taking advantage of both the polar orbit active remote sensing data (from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization—CALIOP) and vertical information and the geostationary passive remote sensing measurements (from the Spinning Enhance...
From December 2020 to February 2022, 66 lava fountains (LF) occurred at Etna volcano (Italy). Despite their short duration (an average of about two hours), they produced a strong impact on human life, environment, and air traffic. In this work, the m...
In this study, we present a method for extracting the volcanic cloud top height (VCTH) as a plume elevation model (PEM) from orthorectified Landsat 8 data (Level 1). A similar methodology was previously applied to raw Landsat-8 data (Level 0). But le...
Forecasting in-flight icing conditions is crucial for aviation safety, particularly in regions with variable and complex meteorological configurations, such as Greece. Icing accretion onto the aircraft’s surfaces is influenced by the presence o...
To make better use of microwave radiance observations for data assimilation, removal of radiances contaminated by hydrometeor particles is one of the most important steps. Generally, all observations below the middle troposphere are eliminated before...
The macroscopic characteristics of clouds over Lanzhou, China were investigated using micro-pulse lidar data from September 2005 to November 2011. The results show that the mean of the cloud base height, cloud peak height, cloud top height and cloud...
The eastern slope of the Tibetan Plateau is a crucial corridor of water-vapor transport from the Tibetan Plateau to Eastern China. This is also a region with active cloud initiation, and the locally hatched cloud systems have a profound impact on the...
This study investigated short-duration heavy-rainfall events in Sichuan during 2023–2025. A 35 km × 35 km cloud window centered on heavy-rainfall stations was constructed. Multiple cloud parameters in the window were statistically analyze...
A significant part of clouds in the tropics appears over the tropopause due to intense convections and in situ condensation activity. These tropical tropopause layer (TTL) clouds not only play an important role in the radiation budget over the tropic...
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...
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 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...
Altitude occurrences of cirrus clouds, their base, mid, and top heights are identified by using a powerful statistical approach called the Variance Centroid Method (VCM). This method is effective in determining the geometrical properties of cirrus cl...
Volcanic ash clouds can damage aircrafts during flight and, thus, have the potential to disrupt air traffic on a large scale, making their detection and monitoring necessary. The new retrieval algorithm VACOS (Volcanic Ash Cloud properties Obtained f...
This study uses GPM DPR and Himawari-8 cloud-top infrared data to classify the precipitating cloud (PC) into three life stages: developing, mature, and dissipating. Based on GPM DPR data from April to June 2018–2022, this research investigates...
Most of the lightning appears below the cloud or inside the cloud. Unlike conventional lightning, blue jets and gigantic jets (GJ) produce upward discharge since electric discharge occurs as a form of cloud-to-air leader. We analyzed a gigantic jet r...
Measurements of the global cloud vertical structure (CVS) are critical to better understanding the effects of the CVS on climate. Current CVS algorithms based on OCO-2 have to be combined with cloud top height products from CALIPSO and CloudSat, whic...
This study presents a systematic analysis of the optical-physical properties of low clouds and their vertical interaction mechanisms with aerosols over three African sub-regions (A: North African Desert; B: Congo Basin; C: Southeastern Plateau and Co...
Geostationary meteorological satellite data with high spatial and temporal resolution can be used to retrieve cloud physical parameters, which has significant advantages in tracking cloud evolution and development. Based on satellite multispectral RG...
We used the observations from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) onboard Aqua over the northwest Pacific Ocean from 2006–2015 to study the relationships between (i) tropical cyclone (TC) temperature structure and intensity and (ii) cloud macro...
This paper investigates the quality of global cloud fraction and cloud-top height products provided by the third edition of the CM SAF cLoud, Albedo and surface RAdiation dataset from the AVHRR data (CLARA-A3) climate data record (CDR) produced by th...
The distribution and variation of top-of-atmosphere longwave cloud radiative forcing (LCRFTOA) has drawn a significant amount of attention due to its importance in understanding the energy budget. Advancements in sensor and data processing technology...
Long-term satellite climate data records of aerosol and cloud along with meteorological reanalysis data have been used to study the aerosol effects on deep convective clouds (DCCs) over the global oceans from a climatology perspective. Our focus is o...
Small-scale placer mining in Colombia takes place in rural areas and involves excavations resulting in large footprints of bare soil and water ponds. Such excavated areas comprise a mosaic of challenging terrains for cloud and cloud-shadow detection...
Our study analyzed the occurrence frequency and distribution of seedable clouds around the Korean Peninsula in order to better secure water resources. Cloud products from the Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite (COMS), including cloud...
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