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

Articles | Volume 26, issue 10

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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RC1:
'Comment on egusphere-2025-4769', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Oct 2025

The review is provided as a PDF file in the Supplement.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4769-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Zhujun Li, 23 Dec 2025
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4769/egusphere-2025-4769-AC1-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4769-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on egusphere-2025-4769', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Nov 2025

The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4769/egusphere-2025-4769-RC2-supplement.pdf

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4769-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Zhujun Li, 23 Dec 2025
  
  The comment was uploaded in the form of a supplement: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-4769/egusphere-2025-4769-AC2-supplement.pdf
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4769-AC2

Peer review completion

AR – Author's response | RR – Referee report | ED – Editor decision | EF – Editorial file upload

AR by Zhujun Li on behalf of the Authors (21 Feb 2026) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Feb 2026) by Matthias Tesche

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (01 Mar 2026)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (13 Mar 2026) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Zhujun Li on behalf of the Authors (20 Mar 2026) Author's response Manuscript

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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.

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

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