Abstract: A method to monitor the aerosol impact on convective clouds using satellite data is presented. The impacts of forest fires and highly polluting megacities on cloud precipitation formation processes are quantified by the ...

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Abstract: This paper investigates the feasibility of a quantitative estimation of precipitation from space, based on retrieval of microphysical properties of cloud tops using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data. The effective ...

Abstract: Multispectral analyses of satellite images are used to calculate the evolution of the effective radius of convective cloud particles with temperature, and to infer from that information about precipitation forming processes ...

Abstract: Nighttime microphysical retrievals can be obtained to a much lesser accuracy than those of the daytime, because of lack of the solar radiation. However, a proper treatment of the brightness temperature difference (BTD) ...

Abstract: Information about the microstructure and precipitation potential of cloud revealed by the brightness temperature difference between a thermal IR channel (11 ?m) and a mid-IR channel (3.7 ?m) at nighttime is implemented ...