Jennifer M. Comstock

TL;DR: This study presents the first direct cloud and precipitation measurements showing that Saharan and Asian dust and biological aerosols probably serve as IN and play an important role in orographic precipitation processes over the western United States.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically assessed the aerosol effects on isolated DCCs based on cloud-resolving model simulations with spectral bin cloud microphysics and found that the decreasing rate of convective strength is greater in the humid air than that in the dry air when wind shear is strong.

TL;DR: Observational evidence and numerical simulations of deep convective clouds over the Amazon show that DCCs forming in a low-aerosol environment can develop very large vapor supersaturation because fast droplet coalescence reduces integrated droplet surface area and subsequent condensation, which suggests a strong anthropogenic invigoration of D CCs in previously pristine regions of the world.

TL;DR: The need to further validate current retrieval theories and assumptions and even the development of new retrieval algorithms with more observations under different cloud regimes is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined active and passive remote sensing instrumentation to derive radiative and macrophysical properties of tropical cirrus clouds, and found that two different types of clouds exist in the tropical western Pacific: high, thin, laminar cirrus with cloud base higher than 15 km, and lower, physically thicker, more structured clouds.