Sentences with phrase «microphysical properties»

Smith, S.A., and A.D. Del Genio, 2001: Analysis of aircraft, radiosonde, and radar observations in cirrus clouds observed during FIRE II: The interactions between environmental structure, turbulence, and cloud microphysical properties.

Xu, X., J. Wang, J. Zeng, R. Spurr, X. Liu, O. Dubovik, L. Li, Z. Li, M.I. Mishchenko, A. Siniuk, and B.N. Holben, 2015: Retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties from AERONET photo - polarimetric measurements.

«Modeling the details of cloud microphysical properties is very computationally intensive, so models don't usually include them,» said Fan.

In addition to revealing the composition of these high altitude clouds, the in - cloud observations will be used to refine the methodologies used to infer cloud microphysical properties from the long - term data collected at the ARM Climate Research Facility sites in the Tropical Western Pacific.

Not exact matches

Research activities include remote sensing techniques for retrieval of spatial, radiative and microphysical cloud properties from multispectral sensor data.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

effects of aerosols on cloud properties (including cloud fraction, cloud microphysical parameters, and precipitation efficiency), which may modify the hydrological cycle without significant radiative impacts;

These microphysical effects may potentially influence cloud properties both directly andindirectly.