Abstract. This study characterizes a massive African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and southern US in June 2020, which is nicknamed “Godzilla” plume, using comprehensive set of satellite ground-based observations (including MODIS, CALIOP, SEVIRI, AERONET, EPA Air Quality network) NASA GEOS global aerosol transport model. The MODIS data record registered this event as most intense epis...

Clouds cover more than two-thirds of the earth’s surface and play a dominant role in energy water cycle our planet. Cirrus clouds are high-level composed mostly ice crystals affect radiation allocation mainly by absorbing outgoing longwave reflecting solar radiation. This study presents characterization cirrus observed on 10 11 April 2019 using ground-based University Zululand (UZ) light detect...

Abstract. The present study aims to evaluate the available aerosol number concentration (ANC) retrieval algorithms for spaceborne lidar CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) aboard CALIPSO and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) satellite airborne in situ measurements from ATom (Atmospheric Tomography Mission) campaign. We used HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangi...