A Midlatitude Cirrus Cloud Climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Part III: Radiative Properties

By Kenneth Sassen, J. Comstock. 2001

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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.”
Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties from AERI Lidar Observations: Algorithm and Results from SHEBA (2005, background): “However, Sassen and Comstock (2001) have shown that nearly half of the cirrus at a midlatitude site have optical depths less than 0.3, and so research is continuing to determine the source of this bias.”
Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms (2009, methodology): “In version 2 processing, a constant value of 25 sr is used for ice clouds, which is the mean value measured by ground-based lidar (Sassen and Comstock 2001), and a constant value of 18 sr is used for water clouds.”