“…Then, the calculation is performed based on the cloud cover diagnostic algorithm proposed by J. Wu et al. (
2012):
where C k and
are the final and initial guess cloud cover in the k th layer, respectively. β represents the effect of upward motion on cloud formation, RH k represents relative humidity in the k th layer, RH c , k denotes the threshold value of relative humidity in the k th layer, w k is the vertical velocity at the k th layer at this grid point, and
is the average value of vertical velocities of all layers at this grid point.…”