Kenneth Sassen

TL;DR: CloudSat as discussed by the authors is a satellite experiment designed to measure the vertical structure of clouds from space, and once launched, CloudSat will orbit in formation as part of a constellation of satellites (the A-Train) that includes NASA's Aqua and Aura satellites, a NASA-CNES lidar satellite (CALIPSO), and a CNES satellite carrying a polarimeter (PARASOL).

TL;DR: In this paper, two intense dust storms were generated over the Gobi desert by springtime low-pressure systems descending from the northwest, and the windblown dust was detected and its evolution followed by its yellow color on SeaWiFS satellite images, routine surface-based monitoring and through serendipitous observations.

TL;DR: In this article, the ice nucleating ability of aerosol particles in air masses over Florida having sources from North Africa has been measured, and the concentrations of ice nuclei within dust layers at particle sizes below 1 pn exceeded 1/cu cm.

TL;DR: In this article, the development of the polarization lidar technique is reviewed, and the current capabilities and limitations of the technique for the cloud research are discussed, as well as the current theoretical approaches involving ice crystal ray-tracing and cloud microphysical-model simulations are expected to increase the utility of the Lidar technique.

TL;DR: In this article, a combined CloudSat/Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) data cirrus cloud algorithm was used to identify those clouds that would likely be classified as cirrus by a surface weather observer.