Global distribution of cirrus clouds from CloudSat/Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) measurements

By Kenneth Sassen, Zhien Wang, Dong Liu. 2008

525 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/14a9c0692d647574fab57430b09c8dded7220293

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Atmospheric Science

In Global and Planetary Change

Citations in the corpus

A review of the light scattering properties of cirrus (2009, background): “Cirrus usually appears at altitudes greater than about 6 km and as satellite observations show can permanently cover 30% of the Earth’s surface, with 60–70% coverage in the tropics [2–7] and it is not confined to a particular latitude or season.”
Tropical stratospheric aerosol layer from CALIPSO lidar observations (2009, methodology): “studied using SAGE II, CloudSat and CALIPSO data [Wang et al., 1996; Liu, 2007; Sassen et al., 2008; Nazaryan et al., 2008].”
Stratospheric control of the Madden-Julian oscillation. (2017, background): “They are gridded over 108 longitude 3 108 latitude grid boxes (Sassen et al. 2008).”
A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations (2020, background): “Though this structure in the measurements is influenced by the maximum or minimum height the engaged aircraft can reach, it corresponds well with the CALIPSO latitudinal height distribution of cirrus clouds, which is largely caused by the decrease in tropopause height with increasing latitude (Sasse”
Cirrus clouds and deep convection in the tropics: Insights from CALIPSO and CloudSat (2009, background): “[16] The above discussion, as well as our previous CloudSat/CALIPSO cirrus research [Sassen et al., 2008], indicates the presence of a diurnal tide in cirrus cloud occurrence frequencies in the tropics, with nighttime cirrus showing a clear dominance in cirrus coverage.”