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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-13833-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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16 Dec 2015
Research article |
| 16 Dec 2015
Long-term trend analysis and climatology of tropical cirrus clouds using 16 years of lidar data set over Southern India
A. K. Pandit
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki-517 112, A. P., India
H. S. Gadhavi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki-517 112, A. P., India
M. Venkat Ratnam
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki-517 112, A. P., India
K. Raghunath
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki-517 112, A. P., India
S. V. B. Rao
Department of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati-517502, A.P., India
A. Jayaraman
National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki-517 112, A. P., India
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We present the longest (1998 to 2013) cirrus cloud climatology over a tropical station using a ground-based lidar. A statistically significant increase is found in the altitude of sub-visible cirrus clouds. Also a systematic shift from thin to sub-visible cirrus cloud type is observed. Ground-based lidar is found to detect more number of sub-visible cirrus clouds than space-based lidar. These findings have implications to global warming and stratosphere-troposphere water vapour exchange studies.
We present the longest (1998 to 2013) cirrus cloud climatology over a tropical station using a...
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