A047
Cloud properties, processes, and associated parameterization
Session ID#: 80827
Session Description:
Clouds play a significant role in the weather and climate systems, and their representation in models remains one of the largest uncertainties for weather and climate predictions. Long-term cloud observations with accurate uncertainty estimates are highly demanded, along with better understanding of cloud processes. Studies have shown large systematic differences of cloud properties from various observations. It is crucial to understand the cloud properties and their uncertainties. With the recent improvements in the availability and quality of observations and model simulations, understanding of cloud processes and improvement of cloud-associated parameterization can be progressed.
This session invites papers focusing on cloud properties, cloud processes, and cloud-associated models and parameterizations. Related topics include but are not limited to 1) cloud observations and retrievals; 2) analyses of cloud properties; 3) quantification of cloud-related uncertainties; 4) cloud and precipitation processes and their parameterization in models; 5) the weather and climate impacts of clouds.
Index Terms:
0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Conveners: Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Xiquan Dong, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Jonathon S. Wright, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Advances on the development of innovative, floating, disposable radioprobes for atmospheric monitoring in warm clouds (492895)
Miryam Elizabeth Paredes Quintanilla1, Marco Allegretti1, Giovanni Perona2, Daniela Tordella3, Eros GIAN ALESSANDRO Pasero1, Silvano Bertoldo1, Andrea Merlone4, Chiara Musacchio4 and Flavio Canavero1, (1)Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Torino, Italy, (2)Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Fisica delle Atmosfere e delle Idrosfere (CINFAI), Torino, Italy, (3)Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Torino, Italy, (4)Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Thermodynamics Division, Torino, Italy
Performance of Cloud Microphysical Parameterization In Simulating A Heavy Rainfall Event (493921)
Sandeep Pattnaik, IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India, Tapajyoti Chakraborty, IIT Bhubaneswar, Jatni, India, Rajendra Kumar Jenamani, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India and Himadri Baisya, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
Implementation of a Two-Moment Warm-Cloud Microphysics Parameterization for Convective Clouds of GCMs: Impacts on MJO Simulations (501114)
Chein-Jung Shiu1, Wan-Ling Tseng1, Huang-Hsiung Hsu1, Yi-Hsuan Chen2, I-Chun Tsai1 and Jen-Ping Chen3, (1)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Natl Taiwan Univ, Taipei, Taiwan
A new set of MODIS Cloud Regimes towards unification with ISCCP Weather States (506585)
Nayeong Cho, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, Jackson Tan, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, George Tselioudis, NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States and William B Rossow, CREST Institute/CCNY, New York, NY, United States
The Multi-layered Cloud Systems from Spaceborne Active Sensors Perspective (519417)
Yun Hang1, Tristan L'Ecuyer1, Alexander Matus2 and David S Henderson3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Sciences and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States
Assessing Climatic Influence of Cloud Ice Particle Size (527637)
Yuan Wang1, Hui Su2, Jonathan H. Jiang3 and Yuk L Yung1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Aerosol effect on vertical profiles of warm rain over Eastern Asia (532323)
Rui Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Rui Zhao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Earth System Science, Sha Tin, Hong Kong and Yu Wang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Factors Affecting Relative Dispersion of Cloud Droplet Size Distributions (534193)
Chunsong Lu1, Yangang Liu2, Seong Soo Yum3, Jingyi Chen4, Lei Zhu5, Sinan Gao5, Yan Yin5 and Xingcan Jia6, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, (6)Institute of Urban Meteorology (IUM), Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA), Beijing, China
Distinct impacts of light and heavy precipitation on PM2.5 mass concentration in Beijing (534503)
Yue Sun, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing 100875, China, Chuanfeng Zhao, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, and State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, ZhanShan Ma, Organization Not Listed, Numerical Weather Predication Center of China Meteorological Administration, Washington, DC, United States, Jiming Li, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Husi Letu, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, Yikun Yang, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Hao Fan, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Evaluation of GEOS total cloud fraction with GLOBE citizen science observations and co-located satellite data (536608)
Helen Amos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Matthew Starke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Summer Intern, Greenbelt, United States and Nathan Arnold, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Toward Consistent Long-term Records of Cloud Fraction from MODIS and VIIRS for CERES (542427)
Qing Trepte1, William L Smith Jr2, Patrick Minnis3, Sunny Sun-Mack4, Christopher R Yost4, Yan Chen4 and David R Doelling5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, E302, Hampton, VA, United States
Evaluating the NASA Aqua MODIS/SNPP VIIRS climate data record continuity cloud products (586920)
Kerry Meyer1, Steven E Platnick1, Robert Holz2, Steve Dutcher3 and Nandana Amarasinghe4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Cloud Scattering Impact on Thermal Radiative Transfer and Global Longwave Radiation (599559)
Zhonghai Jin1, Yuanchong Zhang2, Anthony D Del Genio1, Gavin A Schmidt3 and Maxwell Kelley1, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia Univ/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States
Cloud Properties from MODIS and VIIRS for CERES: Intercomparison and Validation with CALIOP (606303)
Christopher R Yost1, William L Smith Jr2, Patrick Minnis3 and Sunny Sun-Mack1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)SSAI/Larc, Hampton, VA, United States
