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

Table 3

Mean value of distributions of differences ΔH for four cloud variables COD, , IWP, and CFC and for RR for moderate and high dust loading subsets limited to the subset of deep ice clouds only. Here, CTT has been used to describe the meteorological state.

[µm][g/m2][mm/h]

Moderate dust load , 
 Δµ
 Δ
 Δ
 ΔI

High dust load , 
 ΔµN/A
 ΔN/A
N/A
 ΔN/A
 ΔIN/A