Airborne Cloud-Radiation Experiment for Wintertime Stratocumulus in the Japanese Cloud-Climate Study Program
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Clouds play a crucial role in radiative energy budget and water cycle in the earth-atmosphere system. In order to understand such processes as global warming and to improve assessment of climate change, it is necessary to develop climate models, which properly take into account radiation and cloud processes. In addition, it is also important to improve satellite monitoring systems for measuring the global distribution of cloudiness and cloud microphysical properties. The Japanese Cloud and Climate Study (JACCS) is a research effort focusing on these difficult problems associated with issues related to cloud-radiation interactions (Asano et al. 1994).
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