Response of Deep Convective Clouds to Increases in ... - ceres

Deep convective cloudsexhibit relationships amongtheir properties.The least-squares fits were calculatedusing statistically independent FOVs.The means and standard errors wereobtained for equal populations (10 thpercentiles) of the cloud optical depthand 11-μm brightness temperature.The coldest bin consistently had thelargest optical depths and the smallestice crystal diameters in all regions andall seasons.The largest optical depth binsconsistently showed a decrease in icecrystal diameter with increasing cloudoptical depth.