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Research article
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Research article |
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Profile-based estimated inversion strength
Zhenquan Wang
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Jian Yuan
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA
Yifan Chen
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Tiancheng Tong
Tianwen School, Yichang, China
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Every year, the seasonal cycle of biomass burning from agricultural practices in Africa creates a huge plume of smoke that travels many thousands of kilometres over the Atlantic Ocean. This study provides an overview of a measurement campaign called the cloud–aerosol–radiation interaction and forcing for year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) and documents the rationale, deployment strategy, observations, and key results from the campaign which utilized the heavily equipped FAAM atmospheric research aircraft.
Tianle Yuan, Hua Song, Robert Wood, Johannes Mohrmann, Kerry Meyer, Lazaros Oreopoulos, and Steven Platnick
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 6989–6997, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6989-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6989-2020, 2020
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We use deep transfer learning techniques to classify satellite cloud images into different morphology types. It achieves the state-of-the-art results and can automatically process a large amount of satellite data. The algorithm will help low-cloud researchers to better understand their mesoscale organizations.
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This study develops a novel profile-based algorithm based on the ERA5 to estimate the inversion strength in the planetary boundary layer better than the previous inversion index, which is a key low-cloud-controlling factor. This improved measure is more effective at representing the meteorological influence on low-cloud variations. It can better constrain the meteorological influence on low clouds to better isolate cloud responses to aerosols or to estimate low cloud feedbacks in climate models.
This study develops a novel profile-based algorithm based on the ERA5 to estimate the inversion...
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