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Our long awaited publication exploring the Descending Cirrus clouds over Gadanki. Int'l. Journal of Remote Sensing It is the story of Cirrus clouds which descends / ascends altitude ..... their characteristic properties ....using NARL's long term Lidar data. Nellore Manoj Kumar, Kannan Venkatramanan, Anish Kumar M. Nair & Shekatam Satheesh Kumar   (2020)   On the characterization of descending nature of cirrus clouds over a tropical site, Gadanki,   International Journal of Remote Sensing,   41:17,   6550-6569,   DOI:  10.1080/01431161.2020.1742942 https://t.co/vpReYZZZsY https://t.co/3zJDq2KNjM https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2020.1742942 The interesting feature of Cirrus cloud's descending & ascending are well characterized using ~6 years of lidar observations. The study roots back to the inspiration from my earlier work published in J.Geophysicsl Research in 2012 Nair,  A. K. M.   ,  K....

Our article "Enhanced daytime occurrence of clouds in the tropical upper troposphere over land and ocean" published in Atmospheric Research  Gupta, A. K., Rajeev, K., Sijikumar, S., & Nair, A. K. M. (2018). Enhanced daytime occurrence of clouds in the tropical upper troposphere over land and ocean. Atmospheric Research , 201 (October 2017), 133–143. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.10.018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809517302235

Our latest paper on the "Role of cloud feedback in regulating the “pool of inhibited cloudiness” over the Bay of Bengal" published in Springer Nature's  Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics . https://goo.gl/bNdLFg Read & Share Full Article here: http://rdcu.be/wOmz Anish Kumar M. Nair,  T. N. Rao and  K. Rajeev   Reference .bib   @Article{nair2017,   author   = {Nair, Anish Kumar M. and Rao, T. Narayana and Rajeev, K.},   title    = {Role of cloud feedback in regulating the “pool of inhibited cloudiness” over the Bay of Bengal},   journal  = {Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics},   year     = {2017},   pages    = {1--12},   month    = {10},   issn     = {0177-7971},   abstract = {Cloud-circulation feedback by latent heating (LH) is a major contributor for driving atmospheric circulation. This study exami...

Have you heard of Cirrus cloud descending .........? What is it ......? Is it a frequent phenomenon .....? Does it have seasonal dependence ....? Where does it occur ......? Why do cirrus descend .....? What is it's impact .......? We have discovered the phenomenon using 3 years of lidar observations over Thiruvananthapuram, near southern tip of India that Cirrus clouds frequently DESCEND.....! After analysing the data together with other observations and models, we have come up answers to the above questions.  The observations and results are now accepted by the scientific community and it finds a place in the Journal of Geophysical Research - JGR (Atmosphere). Read more... Here is the link:  http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2012/2011JD017406.shtml   Nair, A. K. M. , K. Rajeev, M. K. Mishra, B. V. Thampi, and K. Parameswaran  ( 2012 ),  Multiyear lidar observations of the descending nature of tropical cirrus clouds ,...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Volume 74 , January 2012, Pages 232–237 Impact of a noon-time annular solar eclipse on the mixing layer height and vertical distribution of aerosols in the atmospheric boundary layer Manoj Kumar Mishra,  K. Rajeev ,  ,  Anish Kumar M. Nair,  K. Krishna Moorthy,  K. Parameswaran For full paper, click this link:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2011.10.012 , Abstract Impact of the long duration noontime annular solar eclipse on 15 January 2010 on the vertical distribution of aerosols and mixing layer height ( H M ) in a well-developed convective atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) has been investigated using continuous Lidar observations over a tropical coastal station, Thumba (8.5°N, 76.9°E). This study shows that  H M  has decreased from its peak value of ∼1800 m at 12:00 h to ∼1000 m following the annular phase of the eclipse (13:17 h), whil...