Xiquan Dong

TL;DR: This work examines the effect of aerosols on cloud optical properties using measurements of aerosol and cloud properties at two North American sites that span polluted and clean conditions, and concludes that the indirect aerosol effect has a significant influence on radiative fluxes.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method to retrieve cloud liquid water path using 23.8 and 31.4 GHz microwave radiometer brightness temperature measurements is developed, which does not depend on climatological estimates of either the mean radiating temperature of the atmosphere Tmr or the mean cloud liquid temperature Tcloud, rather, Tmr is estimated from surface temperature and relative humidity measurements, while Tcloud is estimated using millimeterwave cloud radar data, together with atmospheric temperature profiles obtained from either radiosonde or rapid update cycle (RUC) model output.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of cloud-aerosol-precipitation interactions (CAPI) is presented, focusing on the observations of aerosol loading and properties, relationships between aerosols and meteorological variables affecting CAPI, and quantification of CAPI and their impact on climate.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects on low-level cloud microstructures of varying aerosol regimes in the Arctic were examined using ground-based measurements obtained near Barrow, Alaska.

TL;DR: A 10-year record of Arctic cloud fraction and radiative forcing has been generated using data collected at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) North Slope of Alaska site and the nearby NOAA Barrow Observatory (BRW) from June 1998 to May 2008.