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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Observation histograms of ice water path (a, b) and ice cloud effective radius (c, d) for all cloud observations (a, c) and deep ice clouds only (b, d). Black colour represents pristine background conditions, blue moderate dust loading, and red the high dust loading class.
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