Articles | Volume 11, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5461-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5461-2018
Research article
 | 
05 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 05 Oct 2018

First fully diurnal fog and low cloud satellite detection reveals life cycle in the Namib

Hendrik Andersen and Jan Cermak

Related authors

A systematic evaluation of high-cloud controlling factors
Sarah Wilson Kemsley, Paulo Ceppi, Hendrik Andersen, Jan Cermak, Philip Stier, and Peer Nowack
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-226,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-226, 2024
Short summary
Fractional solubility of iron in mineral dust aerosols over coastal Namibia: a link to marine biogenic emissions?
Karine Desboeufs, Paola Formenti, Raquel Torres-Sánchez, Kerstin Schepanski, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Hendrik Andersen, Jan Cermak, Stefanie Feuerstein, Benoit Laurent, Danitza Klopper, Andreas Namwoonde, Mathieu Cazaunau, Servanne Chevaillier, Anaïs Feron, Cécile Mirande-Bret, Sylvain Triquet, and Stuart J. Piketh
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 1525–1541, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1525-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1525-2024, 2024
Short summary
Sensitivities of cloud radiative effects to large-scale meteorology and aerosols from global observations
Hendrik Andersen, Jan Cermak, Alyson Douglas, Timothy A. Myers, Peer Nowack, Philip Stier, Casey J. Wall, and Sarah Wilson Kemsley
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10775–10794, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10775-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10775-2023, 2023
Short summary
Analysis of cloud fraction adjustment to aerosols and its dependence on meteorological controls using explainable machine learning
Yichen Jia, Hendrik Andersen, and Jan Cermak
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1667,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1667, 2023
Short summary
High-resolution satellite-based cloud detection for the analysis of land surface effects on boundary layer clouds
Julia Fuchs, Hendrik Andersen, Jan Cermak, Eva Pauli, and Rob Roebeling
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 4257–4270, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4257-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4257-2022, 2022
Short summary

Related subject area

Subject: Clouds | Technique: Remote Sensing | Topic: Data Processing and Information Retrieval
Geometrical and optical properties of cirrus clouds in Barcelona, Spain: analysis with the two-way transmittance method of 4 years of lidar measurements
Cristina Gil-Díaz, Michäel Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, Jasper R. Lewis, Ellsworth J. Welton, and Simone Lolli
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 1197–1216, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1197-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1197-2024, 2024
Short summary
Determination of the vertical distribution of in-cloud particle shape using SLDR-mode 35 GHz scanning cloud radar
Audrey Teisseire, Patric Seifert, Alexander Myagkov, Johannes Bühl, and Martin Radenz
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 999–1016, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-999-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-999-2024, 2024
Short summary
Artificial intelligence (AI)-derived 3D cloud tomography from geostationary 2D satellite data
Sarah Brüning, Stefan Niebler, and Holger Tost
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 961–978, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-961-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-961-2024, 2024
Short summary
The EarthCARE mission: science data processing chain overview
Michael Eisinger, Fabien Marnas, Kotska Wallace, Takuji Kubota, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yuichi Ohno, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Eichi Tomita, Tobias Wehr, and Dirk Bernaerts
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 839–862, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-839-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-839-2024, 2024
Short summary
Cloud optical and physical properties retrieval from EarthCARE multi-spectral imager: the M-COP products
Anja Hünerbein, Sebastian Bley, Hartwig Deneke, Jan Fokke Meirink, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, and Andi Walther
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 261–276, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-261-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-261-2024, 2024
Short summary

Cited articles

Adebiyi, A. A., Zuidema, P., and Sciences, A.: Low cloud cover sensitivity to biomass-burning aerosols and meteorology over the southeast Atlantic, J. Climate, 2, 4329–4346, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0406.1, 2018. a
Andersen, H. and Cermak, J.: How thermodynamic environments control stratocumulus microphysics and interactions with aerosols, Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 24004, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024004, 2015. a
Andersen, H., Cermak, J., Fuchs, J., Knutti, R., and Lohmann, U.: Understanding the drivers of marine liquid-water cloud occurrence and properties with global observations using neural networks, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9535–9546, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9535-2017, 2017. a, b
Azúa-Bustos, A., González-Silva, C., Mancilla, R. A., Salas, L., Gómez-Silva, B., McKay, C. P., and Vicuña, R.: Hypolithic Cyanobacteria Supported Mainly by Fog in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert, Microb. Ecol., 61, 568–581, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-010-9784-5, 2011. a
Bauer, K., Neben, S., Schreckenberger, B., Emmermann, R., Hinz, K., Fechner, N., Gohl, K., Schulze, A., Trumbull, R. B., and Weber, K.: Deep structure of the Namibia continental margin as derived from integrated geophysical studies, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 25829, https://doi.org/10.1029/2000JB900227, 2000. a
Download
Short summary
Fog and low clouds (FLCs) are a valuable source of water for many ecosystems in the Namib. This study presents the first fully diurnal satellite detection of FLCs, revealing the spatial and temporal patterns in the Namib. A validation is conducted against station measurements in the central Namib and shows a high overall accuracy. The average timing and persistence of FLCs seem to depend on the distance to the coast, suggesting that the region is dominated by advection-driven FLCs.