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Using 3 years (2017\u20132019) of cloud-top-phase products from the Advanced Himawari Imager onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 satellite, this study examines the seasonal and diurnal variations in the cloud-top phase over the WNP. Results show that over the low- and mid-latitude maritime regions, ice (water) clouds occur more (less) frequently during boreal winter than summer. Water clouds are more likely to be related to moisture conditions in the lower troposphere than to the underlying sea surface temperature. Owing to the combined effects of moist air mass transport and ocean currents (topography), the WNP region east of Hokkaido (the Sichuan Basin) has a high frequency of water clouds in summer (winter). Furthermore, supercooled water cloud populations have a clear seasonal cycle. The fraction of water clouds that are supercooled appears to be modulated by the near-surface air temperature. A diurnal cycle is seen in ice-cloud populations, which are highest in the late afternoon over both ocean and land except for the Sichuan Basin where summer nocturnal precipitation is typical. The occurrences of continental water clouds peak at noon in summer but early morning (around sunrise) in winter. An increase in the frequency of continental summer water clouds around noon is found to be associated with variations in both the cloud-top elevation of already-existing water clouds and new formations of boundary-layer clouds.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13091687","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,27]],"date-time":"2021-04-27T21:18:20Z","timestamp":1619558300000},"page":"1687","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Seasonal and Diurnal Variations in Cloud-Top Phase over the Western North Pacific during 2017\u20132019"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9333-4055","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaoyong","family":"Zhuge","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology, CMA, Nanjing 210008, China"},{"name":"Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaolei","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Joint Center of Data Assimilation for Research and Application, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology, CMA, Nanjing 210008, China"},{"name":"Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology, CMA, Nanjing 210008, China"},{"name":"Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology, CMA, Nanjing 210008, China"},{"name":"Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lu","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology, CMA, Nanjing 210008, China"},{"name":"Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Bergeron, T. 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