Natural seeder‐feeder processes play an essential role in the formation and enhancement
of precipitation. However, the cloud‐seeding process from mixed‐phase clouds is still not …

Cirrus clouds related to transported dust layers were identified on 22 occasions with ground-
based polarization lidar from December 2012 to February 2018 over Wuhan (30.5° N …

The POLIPHON (polarization lidar photometer networking) method is a powerful pathway to
retrieve the height profiles of dust-related particle mass and ice-nucleating particle (INP) …

The depolarization ratio and backscattering cross sections have been calculated for shapes
and size of ice crystals that are typical in cirrus clouds. The calculations are performed in the …

The Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory
(DSCOVR) spacecraft observes the sunlit face of the Earth from a distance of about one-and …

The orientation of ice crystals plays a significant role in determining their radiative and
precipitating effects, horizontally oriented ice crystals (HOICs) reflect up to~ 40% more short …

Abstract A~ 50-h-lasting mid-level thin liquid cloud layer was present over south and central
China on December 13–15, 2018. Its characteristics were revealed by the observations from …

Backscattering properties of ice crystals are numerically investigated in the case of plate-like
quasi-horizontally oriented crystals of cirrus clouds. In this case, a vertically oriented lidar …

The seeding effect of upper clouds on lower clouds affects the evolution of clouds, especially
the seeding from upper ice clouds on lower stratiform clouds or convective clouds, which …

The results of numerical simulation of the signal of a scanning lidar for the case of sounding
a cloud containing quasi-horizontally oriented plate crystals are presented. The results of the …