Description:

Laboratory measurements, in-situ aircraft observations, and remote sensing techniques are essential for uncovering cloud properties and processes at different scales that are critical for weather and climate. The complexity of cloud microphysical properties, i.e. hydrometeor number and mass concentration, optical cross sections and chemical composition, continue to challenge instrumentation developers. Employing advanced techniques has led to the development of innovative cloud measurement methods in recent years. Insights gained from these advanced measurements may provide new research opportunities to enhance our understanding of warm-phase and cold-phase cloud microphysical processes that currently remain incompletely understood. In this session, we welcome contributions that employ innovative cloud and precipitation measurements (including laboratory, in-situ, remote sensing techniques) to advance our understanding of cloud and precipitation physics. We encourage contributions from new and emerging measurements that can bridge observational gaps in cloud physics, uncover new cloud phenomenon, bring new insights of cloud processes, improve cloud parameterization, or help model evaluation.