Cirrus clouds and deep convection in the tropics: Insights from CALIPSO and CloudSat

By Kenneth Sassen, Zhien Wang, Dong Liu. 2009

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Tristan L'Ecuyer
2. Zhien Wang
3. Lars Hoffmann
4. Xianghui Xue
5. Gerald Mace
6. Philip Partain
7. M. Alexander
8. Min Deng

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Tristan L'Ecuyer
2. Zhien Wang
3. Gerald Mace
4. Philip Partain
5. Min Deng
6. Duane Waliser
7. Hajime Okamoto
8. M. Sekiguchi

Citations in the corpus

• A global survey of cloud overlap based on CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2015, background): “Sassen et al. (2009) showed that the 227 observed day-night variations in cirrus observed by CALIPSO mostly reflect real 228 cloud processes, even when the strong solar noise signature impacts the comparisons 229 of cloud types between day and night, particularly for cirrus.”
• An observationally based evaluation of cloud ice water in CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs and contemporary reanalyses using contemporary satellite data (2012, background): “…lidar) to the thickest ice cloud [Austin and Stephens, 2001; Hogan, 2006; Delanoë and Hogan, 2008, 2010; Mace et al., 2009; Young and Vaughan, 2009; Sassen et al., 2009; Stein et al., 2011; M. Deng et al., Evaluation of several A-Train ice cloud retrieval products with in situ measurements…”
• A Multisensor Perspective on the Radiative Impacts of Clouds and Aerosols (2013, background): “These values are consistent with ground-based-lidar optical-depth measurements of thin cirrus clouds ranging from 0.03 to 0.3 (Sassen et al. 2009).”
• A global view of stratospheric gravity wave hotspots located with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations (2012, background): “Sassen et al. [2009] pointed out that according to the model usually applied for the diurnal cycle of tropical thunderstorms, the deep convection maxima occur about 6 h prior to both the Aqua day or night overpasses.”
• Tropical composition, cloud and climate coupling experiment validation for cirrus cloud profiling retrieval using cloudsat radar and CALIPSO lidar (2010, background): “When taken together, the measurements provide an unprecedented set of coincident synergistic observations [Wang et al., 2008; Sassen et al., 2009; Mace et al., 2009] that allows for implementation of a new generation of global algorithms for retrieving cloud and 1Department of Atmospheric Science,…”
• CALIPSO detection of an Asian tropopause aerosol layer (2011, background): “occurrence of cirrus clouds is very high [Sassen et al., 2009].”