Classifying clouds around the globe with the CloudSat radar: 1‐year of results

By Kenneth Sassen, Zhien Wang. 2008

318 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Seiji Kato
2. Sandrine Bony
3. J. Dufresne
4. H. Chepfer
5. G. Cesana
6. Norman G. Loeb
7. Zhien Wang
8. Dong Liu

In Earth-Surface Processes

1. Dong Liu
2. Zhien Wang
3. Kenneth Sassen
4. Graeme L. Stephens

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Seiji Kato
2. Sandrine Bony
3. J. Dufresne
4. H. Chepfer
5. G. Cesana
6. Norman G. Loeb
7. Zhien Wang
8. Fred G. Rose

Citations in the corpus

• The GCM‐Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO‐GOCCP) (2010, methodology): “The analysis of Sassen and Wang [2008] using CloudSat data alone, leads to a cloud cover of 64.0% over ocean and of 54.7% over land, whereas CALIOP-NASA L2 yields 84% and 63%, respectively.”
• Global distribution of cirrus clouds from CloudSat/Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) measurements (2008, methodology): “Figure 9. Average 2.5 latitude display of the identified cirrus cloud physical thicknesses for single, multiple, and total-sample average la Figure 10. Comparison of the zonal-averaged cirrus cloud frequency of occurrence versus latitude over land and ocean for CloudSat-only (bars) [ Sassen and Wang”
• A global view of midlevel liquid‐layer topped stratiform cloud distribution and phase partition from CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2010, unknown): “…with CALIOP lidar, MODIS measurements, and other ancillary data, CloudSat provides global cloud distributions and vertical profiles, cloud types, liquid and ice water content profiles, particle effective radius measurements, and precipitation data [ Sassen and Wang , 2008; Stephens et al. , 2008].”
• Aerosol Indirect Effects on Tropical Convection Characteristics under Conditions of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium (2011, unknown): “The shallow cloud mode, which takes into account both the trade wind cumulus of the subsidence regions and the trade-like cumuli of the ascending regions, is the most predominant mode, as is typically seen in observational studies (Rossow and Schiffer 1999; Sassen and Wang 2008).”
• Improvements of top-of-atmosphere and surface irradiance computations with CALIPSO-, CloudSat-, and MODIS-derived cloud and aerosol properties (2011, methodology): “We use the precipitation flag from the CloudSat CLDCLASS product [ Sassen and Wang, 2008 ] and average cloud profiles with the flag equal to 0 (nonprecipitating clouds).”