Cloud Vertical Structure and Its Variations from a 20-Yr Global Rawinsonde Dataset

By Junhong Wang, William B. Rossow, Yuanchong Zhang. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles (2010, background): “We expect, however, that D derived from data does not depend on the bin size very much so long as the bin size is smaller than D. A study by Wang et al. [2000] indicates that the mode thickness of cloud layers is about 500 m. [25] Given the uppermost layer at the layer i, the probability of cloud ”
Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to top of atmosphere based on ISCCP and other global data sets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data (2004, methodology): “However, since cloud vertical structure (CVS) is the key to determining the radiative (and latent) heating rate profile in the atmosphere that drives the atmospheric circulation, we exploit the availability of the 20-year climatology of CVS [Wang et al., 2000] to provide the first comprehensive esti”
Parameterization of Generalized Cloud Overlap for Radiative Calculations in General Circulation Models (2001, background): “To date, satellite and surface observations have provided only limited information on the vertical profiles of cloud cover (Haskins et al. 1995; Wang et al. 2000).”
Improvements of top-of-atmosphere and surface irradiance computations with CALIPSO-, CloudSat-, and MODIS-derived cloud and aerosol properties (2011, methodology): “[28] The global mean surface downward longwave irradiance estimated by Zhang et al. [2004] from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [Rossow and Schiffer, 1991]) is 345 W m −2 . This estimate accounts for overlapping clouds with the use of climatological cloud vertical profil”
The operational cloud retrieval algorithms from TROPOMI on board Sentinel-5 Precursor (2017, methodology): “The cloud macro-physical properties (classifications of cloud top height and cloud geometrical thickness) are based on the 25 tables in (Wang et al., 2000).”
Comparison of GPS radio occultation soundings with radiosondes (2005, background): “Operational radiosonde data are available twice daily at mandatory, significant, and some additional levels with a mean vertical resolution of 53 hPa [Wang et al., 2000].”