“…Regional cloud climatologies have been developed over a number of locations worldwide, including: the Mediterranean Sea (Levizzani et al, 2010), the Baltic Sea (Rastoskuyev and Shalina, 1996), the North Sea (Berger, 1995), the Central Arctic Ocean (Lubin and Morrow, 1998), the Canary Islands (González et al, 2007), Scandinavia (Karlsson, 2003;Karlsson et al, 2008), the Alps (Kästner and Kriebel, 2001), the Tatra Mountains, (Kotarba, 2010b), Denmark (Jorgensen, 2000), the Upper Rhine Valley (Heinzmann, 1993), the Upper Indus Basin (Forsythe et al, 2015), the Great Lakes (Ackerman et al, 2013), the Iberian Peninsula (Azorin-Molina et al, 2015), the Mackenzie Basin in the Arctic (Garand and Nadon, 1998), the Arctic (Key and Barry, 1989), East Antarctica (Murata and Yamanouchi, 1997), and the South Pole (Lubin and Harper, 1996), amongst many others.…”