High Resolution Active Optical Remote Sensing Observations of Aerosols, Clouds and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Their Implication to Climate

• Autres auteurs: Lolli, Simone (Éditeur intellectuel), Qin, Kai (Éditeur intellectuel), Campbell, James (Éditeur intellectuel), Wang, Sheng-Hsiang (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Sujets: Research & information: general; rainfall; lidar; disdrometer; evaporation; meteorology; climate change; latent heat; precipitation; MOD04; Dark-Target; Deep-Blue; AERONET; LiDAR; AOD; Beijing; China; CALIPSO; dust top height; frequency of dust occurrence; pure dust; polluted dust; extinction coefficient; above-cloud aerosol; low-level cloud; cloud base height; ground-based observations; relative humidity profile; threshold; Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau; low-latitude plateau monsoon climate; aerosol type and source; aerosol properties; monsoon index; seasonal variation; aerosol; aerosol-cloud interactions; MPLNET; image processing; network; infrastructure; virga; black carbon; Tibetan plateau; water vapor transport; South Asian summer monsoon; East Asian summer monsoon; PM2.5; radar wind profiler; wind shear; dual-field-of-view (FOV); geometric overlap factor (GOF); blind zone; transition zone; mass concentration; stereo-monitoring networks; Doppler LiDAR; spatial wind variability; air quality; turbulent mixing; cloud; Hong Kong; aerosols; remote sensing; wind lidar; air-pollution; radiative effects; ground based remote sensing; aerosols optical properties; lidar ratio; aerosol type
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Remote Sensing is of paramount importance for Earth Observation to monitor and analyze the Earth's vital signs. In this Special Issue are reported the latest research results involving active optical remote sensing instruments, both from ground-based to satellite platforms, that are involved in...