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[1] Dusty cloud properties and radiative forcing over northwestern China (source region) are compared to the same quantities over the northwestern Pacific (downwind region) during the Pacific Dust Experiment (PACDEX; April 2007 to May 2007) using collocated data from three satellites in the A-Train constellation: CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations), the Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System on Aqua, and CloudSat. Dusty clouds are defined as clouds extant in a dust plume environment (i.e., dust aerosols observed within 50 m of the cloud), while pure clouds are those in dust-free conditions. CALIPSO lidar and CloudSat radar measurements are used to discriminate between dusty and pure clouds in both study regions. It was found that dust aerosols change the microphysical characteristics of clouds, reducing the cloud optical depth, liquid and ice water path, and effective droplet size. The decreased cloud optical depths and water paths diminish the cloud cooling effect, leading to a greater warming effect. The dust aerosols cause an instantaneous net cloud cooling effect of 43.4% and 16.7% in the source and downwind regions, respectively. The dust aerosol effects appear to be greater for ice clouds than for liquid water clouds in the downwind region. These results are consistent with PACDEX aircraft observations.

A solvothermal technique to process novel graphene aerogel/Fe3O4/polystyrene composites with reticulated graphene structure is described. Porous Fe3O4 nanoparticles as a partial substitute for ethylenediamine assisted cross-linking and interconnections between graphene plates. Fe3O4 and polystyrene incorporation allowed a porous substructure to be formed on the reticulated graphene surfaces, effectively enhancing the hydrophobicity. The compressibility and directional recovery were achieved with the composite having an extremely low density of 0.005 g cm–3, corresponding to a volume porosity of 99.7%. The crude oil intake capacity for the composite was 40 times its own mass after 10 water–oil separation cycles, which is among the highest ever reported for oil absorbents. Furthermore, the incorporation of porous Fe3O4 nanoparticles enabled magnetism which, in combination with compressibility, allowed the oil-soaked graphene composite to be readily collected by a magnet and oil to be squeezed out before the next cyclic operation. The study implies a methodology for processing ultralow density graphene materials.

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Abstract. Based on 8 years of (January 2008-December 2015 cloud phase information from the GCM-Oriented Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) Cloud Product (GOCCP), aerosol products from CALIPSO and meteorological parameters from the ERA-Interim products, the present study investigates the effects of atmospheric dynamics on the supercooled liquid cloud fraction (SCF) during nighttime under different aerosol loadings at global scale to better understand the conditions of supercooled liquid water gradually transforming to ice phase.Statistical results indicate that aerosols' effect on nucleation cannot fully explain all SCF changes, especially in those regions where aerosols' effect on nucleation is not a first-order influence (e.g., due to low ice nuclei aerosol frequency). By performing the temporal and spatial correlations between SCFs and different meteorological factors, this study presents specifically the relationship between SCF and different meteorological parameters under different aerosol loadings on a global scale. We find that the SCFs almost decrease with increasing of aerosol loading, and the SCF variation is closely related to the meteorological parameters but their temporal relationship is not stable and varies with the different regions, seasons and isotherm levels. Obviously negative temporal correlations between SCFs versus vertical velocity and relative humidity indicate that the higher vertical velocity and relative humidity the smaller SCFs. However, the patterns of temporal correlation for lower-tropospheric static stability, skin temperature and horizontal wind are relatively more complex than those of vertical velocity and humidity. For example, their close correlations are predominantly located in middle and high latitudes and vary with latitude or surface type. Although these statistical correlations have not been used to establish a certain causal relationship, our results may provide a unique point of view on the phase change of mixed-phase cloud and have potential implications for further improving the parameterization of the cloud phase and determining the climate feedbacks.

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