The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°S and 51°N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station
International audience We document, for the first time, how detailed ver-tical profiles of cloud fraction (CF) change diurnally be-tween 51◦S and 51◦N, by taking advantage of 15 monthsof measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport Sys-tem (CATS) lidar on the non-sun-synchronous InternationalSpace...
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International audience We document, for the first time, how detailed ver-tical profiles of cloud fraction (CF) change diurnally be-tween 51◦S and 51◦N, by taking advantage of 15 monthsof measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport Sys-tem (CATS) lidar on the non-sun-synchronous InternationalSpace Station (ISS).Over the tropical ocean in summer, we find few highclouds during daytime. At night they become frequent over alarge altitude range (11–16 km between 22:00 and 04:00 LT).Over the summer tropical continents, but not over ocean,CATS observations reveal mid-level clouds (4–8 km abovesea level or a.s.l.) persisting all day long, with a weak di-urnal cycle (minimum at noon). Over the Southern Ocean,diurnal cycles appear for the omnipresent low-level clouds(minimum between noon and 15:00) and high-altitude clouds(minimum between 08:00 and 14:00). Both cycles are timeshifted, with high-altitude clouds following the changes inlow-altitude clouds by several hours. Over all continents atall latitudes during summer, the low-level clouds develop up-wards and reach a maximum occurrence at about 2.5 km a.s.l.in the early afternoon (around 14:00).Our work also shows that (1) the diurnal cycles of ver-tical profiles derived from CATS are consistent with thosefrom ground-based active sensors on a local scale, (2) thecloud profiles derived from CATS measurements at localtimes of 01:30 and 13:30 are consistent with those observedfrom CALIPSO at similar times, and (3) the diurnal cyclesof low and high cloud amounts (CAs) derived from CATS are in general in phase with those derived from geostationaryimagery but less pronounced. Finally, the diurnal variabilityof cloud profiles revealed by CATS strongly suggests thatCALIPSO measurements at 01:30 and 13:30 document thedaily extremes of the cloud fraction profiles over ocean andare more representative of daily averages over land, exceptat altitudes above 10 km where they capture part of the diur-nal variability. These findings are applicable to other instru-ments with local ... |
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The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°S and 51°N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station |
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The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°S and 51°N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station |
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The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°S and 51°N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station |
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:insu-01754601v1 2024-09-15T18:37:25+00:00 The diurnal cycle of cloud profiles over land and ocean between 51°S and 51°N, seen by the CATS spaceborne lidar from the International Space Station Noël, Vincent Chepfer, Hélène Chiriaco, Marjolaine Yorks, John Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO) Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) SPACE - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) 2018 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601/file/acp-18-9457-2018.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018 insu-01754601 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601/file/acp-18-9457-2018.pdf doi:10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://insu.hal.science/insu-01754601 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018, 18, pp.9457-9473. ⟨10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018⟩ [SDU.STU.ME]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Meteorology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9457-2018 2024-08-01T23:46:52Z International audience We document, for the first time, how detailed ver-tical profiles of cloud fraction (CF) change diurnally be-tween 51◦S and 51◦N, by taking advantage of 15 monthsof measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport Sys-tem (CATS) lidar on the non-sun-synchronous InternationalSpace Station (ISS).Over the tropical ocean in summer, we find few highclouds during daytime. At night they become frequent over alarge altitude range (11–16 km between 22:00 and 04:00 LT).Over the summer tropical continents, but not over ocean,CATS observations reveal mid-level clouds (4–8 km abovesea level or a.s.l.) persisting all day long, with a weak di-urnal cycle (minimum at noon). Over the Southern Ocean,diurnal cycles appear for the omnipresent low-level clouds(minimum between noon and 15:00) and high-altitude clouds(minimum between 08:00 and 14:00). Both cycles are timeshifted, with high-altitude clouds following the changes inlow-altitude clouds by several hours. Over all continents atall latitudes during summer, the low-level clouds develop up-wards and reach a maximum occurrence at about 2.5 km a.s.l.in the early afternoon (around 14:00).Our work also shows that (1) the diurnal cycles of ver-tical profiles derived from CATS are consistent with thosefrom ground-based active sensors on a local scale, (2) thecloud profiles derived from CATS measurements at localtimes of 01:30 and 13:30 are consistent with those observedfrom CALIPSO at similar times, and (3) the diurnal cyclesof low and high cloud amounts (CAs) derived from CATS are in general in phase with those derived from geostationaryimagery but less pronounced. Finally, the diurnal variabilityof cloud profiles revealed by CATS strongly suggests thatCALIPSO measurements at 01:30 and 13:30 document thedaily extremes of the cloud fraction profiles over ocean andare more representative of daily averages over land, exceptat altitudes above 10 km where they capture part of the diur-nal variability. These findings are applicable to other instru-ments with local ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean HAL Sorbonne Université Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 13 9457 9473 |