ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Chenxi Wang recently published a paper in JGR-Atmosphere titled, “An assessment of the impacts of cloud vertical heterogeneity on global ice cloud data records from passive satellite retrievals”.
In the study, the authors give a reasonable explanation of the large ice water path (IWP) diversity among different global IWP records. They showed that a large IWP bias may be caused by ignoring ice cloud vertical heterogeneity (CVH). They also quantitatively estimated ICVH-induced biases on monthly averaged cloud macrophysical and radiative properties.
To read the paper in full, see here: “An assessment of the impacts of cloud vertical heterogeneity on global ice cloud data records from passive satellite retrievals”.
