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

Figure 5

Observed ice cloud optical depth histogram (a) and meteorological-state-normalized Bayesian estimator (b) for all three dust loading subsets together with accompanying distribution statistics. Black again represents pristine background conditions, blue moderate dust loading, and red the high dust loading class.

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