Zhien Wang

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: CloudSat data has been used for cloud profiling radar (CPR) as discussed by the authors, which has been operating since 2 June 2006 and has proven to be remarkably stable since turn-on.

TL;DR: In this paper, aircraft-aerosol time-of-flight spectroscopy measurements of ice residues indicate that biological particles trigger ice formation in high-altitude clouds, which is one of the largest remaining sources of uncertainty in climate change projections.

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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from both laboratory studies and atmospheric measurements to develop an empirical parameterization for the immersion freezing activity of natural mineral dust particles, which is consistent with similar measurements in atmospheric dust plumes for a limited set of comparisons available.