Gang Hong

TL;DR: This paper documents the CERES Edition-2 cloud property retrieval system used to analyze data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Visible and Infrared Scanner and by the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer instruments on board the Terra and Aqua satellites covering the period 1998 through 2007.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of the solution from the geometric optics method and the contribution of the so-called edge effect is used to compute the extinction efficiency of a spheroidal particle whose absorption efficiency is computed by adding the above and below-edge effect (a term from the well-known complex angular momentum theory) to the geometric optical result.

TL;DR: In this paper, the diffraction is accounted for in the same way as in the case of smooth particles and the dominant effect of surface roughness on cloud property retrievals is to decrease the retrieved optical thickness and to increase the retrieved effective particle size in comparison with their counterparts in the cases of smooth ice particles.

TL;DR: In this article, the scattering and absorption properties of nonspherical ice crystals in ice clouds were computed using the discrete dipole approximation method at frequencies of 89-340 GHz. And the mean scattering properties of ice clouds with two ice crystal habit distributions were computed by averaging the single-scattering properties over a Gamma particle size distribution.

TL;DR: More accurate interpretation of the CERES radiation measurements has resulted from the use of the Ed4 cloud properties, and the average properties are compared with those from other algorithms and the differences between individual reference data and matched Ed4 retrievals are explored.