Articles | Volume 23, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2729-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2729-2023
Research article
 | 
27 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 27 Feb 2023

Establishment of an analytical model for remote sensing of typical stratocumulus cloud profiles under various precipitation and entrainment conditions

Huazhe Shang, Souichiro Hioki, Guillaume Penide, Céline Cornet, Husi Letu, and Jérôme Riedi

Related authors

Characterization of liquid cloud profiles using global collocated active radar and passive polarimetric cloud measurements
Yutong Wang, Huazhe Shang, Chenqian Tang, Jian Xu, Tianyang Ji, Wenwu Wang, Lesi Wei, Yonghui Lei, Jiancheng Shi, and Husi Letu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2471,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2471, 2025
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
Short summary
Technical note: Retrieval of the supercooled liquid fraction in mixed-phase clouds from Himawari-8 observations
Ziming Wang, Husi Letu, Huazhe Shang, and Luca Bugliaro
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 7559–7574, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7559-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7559-2024, 2024
Short summary
Retrieval of terahertz ice cloud properties from airborne measurements based on the irregularly shaped Voronoi ice scattering models
Ming Li, Husi Letu, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Shulei Li, Lei Liu, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Dabin Ji, Huazhe Shang, and Chong Shi
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 331–353, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-331-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-331-2023, 2023
Short summary
DEVELOPMENT OF A DAYTIME CLOUD AND AEROSOL LOADINGS DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR HIMAWARI-8 SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OVER DESERT
H. Shang, H. Letu, Z. Peng, and Z. Wang
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-3-W5, 61–66, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W5-61-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W5-61-2018, 2018
HIMAWARI-8 GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE OBSERVATION OF THE INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
Q. Gao, D. Dong, X. Yang, L. Husi, and H. Shang
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-3, 363–370, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-363-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-363-2018, 2018

Related subject area

Subject: Clouds and Precipitation | Research Activity: Remote Sensing | Altitude Range: Troposphere | Science Focus: Physics (physical properties and processes)
Shallow cloud variability in Houston, Texas, during the ESCAPE and TRACER field experiments
Zackary Mages, Pavlos Kollias, Bernat Puigdomènech Treserras, Paloma Borque, and Mariko Oue
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 6025–6045, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6025-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6025-2025, 2025
Short summary
How does the lifetime of detrained cirrus impact the high-cloud radiative effect in the tropics?
George Horner and Edward Gryspeerdt
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 5617–5631, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5617-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5617-2025, 2025
Short summary
Anvil–radiation diurnal interaction: shortwave radiative-heating destabilization driving the diurnal variation of convective anvil outflow and its modulation on the radiative cancellation
Zhenquan Wang
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 5021–5039, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5021-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5021-2025, 2025
Short summary
Impact of wildfire smoke on Arctic cirrus formation – Part 1: Analysis of MOSAiC 2019–2020 observations
Albert Ansmann, Cristofer Jimenez, Johanna Roschke, Johannes Bühl, Kevin Ohneiser, Ronny Engelmann, Martin Radenz, Hannes Griesche, Julian Hofer, Dietrich Althausen, Daniel A. Knopf, Sandro Dahlke, Tom Gaudek, Patric Seifert, and Ulla Wandinger
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 4847–4866, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4847-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4847-2025, 2025
Short summary
A new aggregation and riming discrimination algorithm based on polarimetric weather radars
Armin Blanke, Mathias Gergely, and Silke Trömel
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 4167–4184, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4167-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4167-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Alexandrov, M. D., Miller, D. J., Rajapakshe, C., Fridlind, A., van Diedenhoven, B., Cairns, B., Ackerman, A. S., and Zhang, Z.: Vertical profiles of droplet size distributions derived from cloud-side observations by the research scanning polarimeter: Tests on simulated data, J. Atmos. Res., 239, 104924, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104924, 2020a. 
Alexandrov, M. D., Miller, D. J., Rajapakshe, C., Fridlind, A., van Diedenhoven, B., Cairns, B., Ackerman, A. S., and Zhang, Z.: Vertical profiles of droplet size distributions derived from cloud-side observations by the research scanning polarimeter: Tests on simulated data, Atmos. Res., 239, 104924, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104924, 2020b. 
Alexandrov, M. D., Cairns, B., Sinclair, K., Wasilewski, A. P., Ziemba, L., Crosbie, E., Moore, R., Hair, J., Scarino, A. J., and Hu, Y.: Retrievals of cloud droplet size from the research scanning polarimeter data: Validation using in situ measurements, Remote Sens. Environ., 210, 76–95, 2018. 
Arabas, S., Pawlowska, H., and Grabowski, W.: Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft observations in trade-wind cumuli during RICO, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L11803, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038257, 2009. 
Bréon, F.-M. and Goloub, P.: Cloud droplet effective radius from spaceborne polarization measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1879–1882, https://doi.org/10.1029/98gl01221, 1998. 
Download
Short summary
We find that cloud profiles can be divided into four prominent patterns, and the frequency of these four patterns is related to intensities of cloud-top entrainment and precipitation. Based on these analyses, we further propose a cloud profile parameterization scheme allowing us to represent these patterns. Our results shed light on how to facilitate the representation of cloud profiles and how to link them to cloud entrainment or precipitating status in future remote-sensing applications.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint