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Remote sensing of droplet number concentration in warm clouds: A review of the current state of knowledge and perspectives
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The cloud droplet number concentration (Nd) is of central interest to improve the understanding of cloud physics and for quantifying the effective radiative forcing by aerosol‐cloud interactions. Current standard satellite retrievals do not operationally provide Nd, but it can be inferred from retrievals of cloud optical depth (τc) cloud droplet effective radius (re) and cloud top temperature. This review summarizes issues with this approach and quantifies uncertainties. A total relative unce...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1029/2017RG000593
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+ European Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Stier, P
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project RECAP with grant agreement No 724602
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Reviews of Geophysics Journal website
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 409-453
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-04-06
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1944-9208
- Source identifiers:
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836647
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- pubs:836647
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- 2018-04-17
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- Grosvenor et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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