Monthly climate data of days with clear and cloudy skies at 38 stations (1991–2017) daily visual observations total cloud amounts (TCA) available six principal (1992–2017) were used to investigate regional, subregional, temporal characteristics cloudiness in Serbia. Annual, seasonal, monthly means the analysis. Results showed differences due influences from topography, predominant synoptic situ...

In November 2016, a 95 GHz cloud radar was permanently deployed in Reunion Island to investigate the vertical distribution of tropical clouds and monitor temporal variability cloudiness frame pan-European research infrastructure Aerosol, Clouds Trace gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS). present study, reflectivity observations collected during two first years operation (2016–2018) this verti...

A method for estimating the cloud adjacency effect on reflectance of ground surface areas reconstructed from passive satellite observations through gaps in fields is proposed. The allows one to estimate which can be considered small (the increment ?rsurf? 0.005). algorithm based statistical simulation by Monte Carlo radiation transfer stochastic broken cloudiness with a deterministic cylindrica...

Abstract. Spaceborne observations of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) with the Cloud-Aerosol LIdar Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite provide a comprehensive picture occurrence Arctic Antarctic PSCs as well their microphysical properties. However, advances in understanding PSC microphysics also require measurements g...