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The present study investigated the correlations between aerosol and cloud parameters derived from satellite remote sensing to estimate properties of aerosol-cloud interactions. In this study, better evaluations are achieved to use monthly data from 2001 to 2010 at once, because seasonal variations are smaller than annual ones. The global statistics showed that effective particle radius and optical thickness of low clouds correlate well with column number concentration of the aerosol particles in small amount of aerosol loading in the atmosphere (about Na<109 (particles/cm2)), indicating aerosol indirect effects. In case of turbid atmosphere, inverse trends between aerosol and cloud microphysics parameters are appeared. Those regression slopes are steeper in winter than summer, and in northern than southern hemisphere, derived seasonal and regional statistics analyses.

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