Research Article

Large-Scale Analysis of Relationships between Mineral Dust, Ice Cloud Properties, and Precipitation from Satellite Observations Using a Bayesian Approach: Theoretical Basis and First Results for the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

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Ice cloud top temperature histograms (a) and joint PDFs between CTT and ice cloud optical depth, (b), for all three dust loading subsets (in three colours for the three dust loading classes). The CTT histograms for the three dust loading classes are accompanied by the set of statistical descriptors. The joint PDFs are depicted as median value (solid line) and 25th and 75th percentile (bars) for each CTT bin. Black represents pristine background conditions, blue moderate dust loading, and red the high dust loading class.
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