N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: 180
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The Multi-Sensor Advanced Climatology of Liquid Water Path (MAC-LWP) data set contains monthly 1.0-degree ocean-only estimates of cloud liquid water path (MACLWP_mean), total water path (MACTWP_mean) which includes both cloud and rain water, and monthly climatologies of cloud liquid water path diurnal cycle amplitudes and phases (MACLWP_diurnal). The MACTWP_mean field can also be used as a quality-control screen for the MACLWP_mean field as discussed in Elsaesser et al. (2017), where uncertainty increases as the ratio of cloud to total water path increases. The MAC-LWP algorithm uses as input the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Version 7 0.25 degree-resolution retrieval products (produced using the SSM/I, AMSR-E, TMI, AMSR-2, GMI, SSMIS, and WindSat satellite sensors), and performs a bias correction on all input RSS cloud water path products based on AMSR-E matchups to clear-sky MODIS scenes. The MAC-LWP algorithm ensures that spurious trends and variability in the cloud fields arising from drifting satellite overpass times are mitigated by simultaneously solving for the monthly average cloud and total water paths and monthly-mean diurnal cycles, as discussed in O’Dell et al. (2008). Additional details on the algorithm and data fields can be found in Elsaesser et al. (2017).
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using machine learning to generate a GISS ModelE calibrated physics ensemble (CPE) | Elsaesser, Gregory S., van LierWalqui, Marcus, Yang, Qingyuan, Kelley, Maxwell, Ackerman, Andrew S., Fridlind, Ann M., Cesana, Gregory V., Schmidt, Gavin A., Wu, Jingbo, Behrangi, Ali, Camargo, Suzana J., De, Bithi, Inoue, Kuniaki, LeitmannNiimi, Nicolas M., Strong, Jeffrey D. O. | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Precipitation | |
| Emulation of a large-eddy simulator for stratocumulus clouds in a general circulation model | Nordling, Kalle, Keskinen, Jukka-Pekka, Romakkaniemi, Sami, Kokkola, Harri, Raisanen, Petri, Lipponen, Antti, Partanen, Antti-Ilari, Ahola, Jaakko, Tonttila, Juha, Alper, Muzaffer Ege, Korhonen, Hannele, Raatikainen, Tomi | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| An extensible perturbed parameter ensemble for the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 | Eidhammer, Trude, Gettelman, Andrew, Thayer-Calder, Katherine, Watson-Parris, Duncan, Elsaesser, Gregory, Morrison, Hugh, van Lier-Walqui, Marcus, Song, Ci, McCoy, Daniel | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| Dominant role of Arctic dust with high ice nucleating ability in the Arctic lower troposphere | Kawai, Kei, Matsui, Hitoshi, Tobo, Yutaka | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| What controls the historical timeseries of shortwave fluxes in the North Atlantic? | Grosvenor, Daniel P., Carslaw, Kenneth S. | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| Assessment of aerosolcloudradiation correlations in satellite observations, climate models and reanalysis | Bender, F. A.-M., Frey, L., McCoy, D. T., Grosvenor, D. P., Mohrmann, J. K. | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| Anthropogenic aerosol forcinginsights from multiple estimates from aerosol-climate models with reduced complexity | Fiedler, Stephanie, Kinne, Stefan, Huang, Wan Ting Katty, Raisanen, Petri, O'Donnell, Declan, Bellouin, Nicolas, Stier, Philip, Merikanto, Joonas, van Noije, Twan, Makkonen, Risto, Lohmann, Ulrike | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO | Stephens, Graeme L., Hakuba, Maria Z., Webb, Mark J., Lebsock, Matthew, Yue, Qing, Kahn, Brian H., HristovaVeleva, Svetla, Rapp, Anita D., Stubenrauch, Claudia J., Elsaesser, Gregory S., Slingo, Julia | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | |
| Evaluation of cloud liquid water path trends using a multidecadal record of passive microwave observations | Manaster, Andrew, ODell, Christopher W., Elsaesser, Gregory | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice |