Towards Improved Cirrus Cloud Optical Depths from CALIPSO

Lidar multiple scattering factors inferred from CALIPSO lidar and IIR retrievals of semi-transparent cirrus cloud optical depths over oceans

Cirrus cloud absorption optical depths retrieved at 12.05 μm are compared to extinction optical depths retrieved at 0.532 μm from perfectly co-located observations of single-layered semi-transparent cirrus over ocean made by the Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) and the Cloud and Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) flying on board the CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pa...

Cirrus optical depth and lidar ratio retrieval from combined CALIPSO-CloudSat observations using ocean surface echo

Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment Validation for Cirrus Cloud Profiling Retrieval Using Cloudsat Radar and CALIPSO lidar

1 Observational quantification of the optical properties of cirrus cloud

Microphysical and Dynamical Influences on Cirrus Cloud Optical Depth Distributions

Cirrus cloud inhomogeneity occurs at scales greater than the cirrus radiative smoothing scale (~100 m), but less than typical global climate model resolutions (~300 km). Therefore, calculating cirrus radiative impacts in global climate models requires an optical depth distribution parameterization. Radiative transfer calculations are sensitive to optical depth distribution assumptions (Fu et al...