Exploring the phase partitioning in different cloud types using active and passive satellite sensors

Hemispheric and Seasonal Contrast in Cloud Thermodynamic Phase From A‐Train Spaceborne Instruments

“…Previous studies have tried to elucidate the hemispheric and seasonal differences in cloud‐phase by using spaceborne retrievals of aerosol loading and cloud‐phase from lidar and radar retrievals. Several studies have attributed the north‐south contrast in cloud‐phase to the hemispheric differences in the concentration of ice‐nucleating particles (INP) such as dust aerosol (Bruno et al., 2021; Choi et al., 2010; Kawamoto et al., 2020; Tan et al., 2014; Vergara‐Temprado et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2018). Due to land‐ocean distribution, the largest dust sources (such as the Saharan Desert) are located in the northern hemisphere.…”