Advancing the quantification of aerosol-cloud interactions with the CALIPSO-CloudSat-Aqua/MODIS record

Li, Zhujun; Painemal, David; Feng, Yan; Zheng, Xiaojian

doi:10.5194/acp-26-7705-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7705-2026

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7705-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 10

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01 Jun 2026

Research article |

| 01 Jun 2026

Advancing the quantification of aerosol-cloud interactions with the CALIPSO-CloudSat-Aqua/MODIS record

Zhujun Li, David Painemal, Yan Feng, and Xiaojian Zheng

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-7705-2026-supplement

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CALIPSO IIR Lidar Level 3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Cloud, Standard V2-00 D. Painemal https://doi.org/10.5067/SATCORPS/CALIOP_CLOUDSAT_MODIS_25KM_L3.1.0

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This study is the first global assessment of aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) and cloud adjustments that relies on vertically resolved aerosol retrievals that are vertically matched with the location of the cloud layer. We computed ACI metrics and cloud adjustments over the global ocean by combining retrievals from active and passive satellite sensors and found high sensitivity of clouds to changes in their cloud droplet number concentration due to aerosols.