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The upwelling brightness temperature depressions caused by the ice clouds at 325.15, 448.0, 664.0 and 874.0 GHz channels are simulated by the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator (ARTS). The simulated forward radiative transfer models are taken as historical data for the M5 model tree algorithm to construct a set of piecewise functions which represent the relation of simulated brightness temperature depressions and IWP. The inversion results are optimized by an empirical relation of the IWP and the Dme for thin ice clouds which is summarized by previous studies. We inverse IWP and Dme with the simulated brightness temperature and analyze the inversion performance of selected channels. The 874.4 \u00b1 6.0 GHz channel provides the most accurate results, because of the strong brightness temperature response to the change of IWP in the forward radiative transfer model. In order to improve the thin ice clouds IWP and Dme retrieval accuracy at the middle-high frequency channels in Terahertz band, a dual-channel inversion method was proposed that combines the 448.0\u00b1 3.0 GHz and 664.0 \u00b1 4.2 GHz channel. The error analysis shows that the results of the 874.4 \u00b1 6.0 GHz channel and the dual-channel inversion are reliable, and the IWP inversion results meet the error requirement range proposed by previous studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13132569","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]],"date-time":"2021-07-01T02:44:39Z","timestamp":1625107479000},"page":"2569","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Application of M5 Model Tree in Passive Remote Sensing of Thin Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties in Terahertz Region"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Pingyi","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9330-4315","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Shulei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Shuai","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9971-3486","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lingbing","family":"Bu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1241","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0442(2003)16<1241:TDOTTC>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"The distribution of tropical thin cirrus clouds inferred from Terra MODIS data","volume":"16","author":"Dessler","year":"2003","journal-title":"J. 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