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Recent progress in cloud physics research in China

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A review of China cloud physics research during 2003–2006 is made in this paper. The studies on cloud field experiments and observation, cloud physics and precipitation, including its theoretical applications in hail suppression and artificial rain enhancement, cloud physics and lightning, and clouds and climate change are included. Due primarily to the demand from weather modification activities, the issue of cloud physics and weather modification has been addressed in China with many field experiments and model studies. While cloud physics and weather modification is still an important research field, the interaction between aerosol, cloud and radiation processes, which is the key issue of current climate change research, has become a new research direction in China over the past four years.

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    Ma Jianzhong  (马建中), Zhang Yijun  (张义军) & Hu Zhijin  (胡志晋)

  2. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

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  3. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

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Ma, J., Guo, X., Zhao, C. et al. Recent progress in cloud physics research in China. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 24, 1121–1137 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-007-1121-7

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