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Correlation analysis between aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and cloud parameters, including cloud droplet effective radius (CDER), cloud optical depth (COD), cloud water path (CWP), and cloud cover fraction (CCF), is performed. For the first time from satellite observations, the long-term trend in AIE over the global oceans is also examined. Three regimes have been identified: (1) AOT &lt; 0.08, where CDER increases with AOT; (2) 0.08 &lt; AOT &lt; 0.3, where CDER generally decreases when AOT increases; and (3) AOT &gt; 0.3, where CDER first increases with AOT and then levels off. AIE is easy to manifest in the CDER reduction in the second regime (named Regime 2), which is identified as the AIE sensitive\/effective regime. The AIE manifested in the consistent changes of all four cloud variables (CDER, COD, CWP, and CCF) together is located only in limited areas and with evident seasonal variations. The long-term trend of CDER changes due to the AIE of AOT changes is detected and falls into three scenarios: Evident CDER decreasing (increasing) with significant AOT increasing (decreasing) and evident CDER decreasing with limited AOT increasing but AOT values fall in the AIE sensitive Regime 2.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8040300","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,4]],"date-time":"2016-04-04T10:44:35Z","timestamp":1459766675000},"page":"300","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Climatology Analysis of Aerosol Effect on Marine Water Cloud from Long-Term Satellite Climate Data Records"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6491-3907","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xuepeng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA\/NESDIS, Asheville, NC 28801, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Heidinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), NOAA\/NESDIS, Madison, WI 53706, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andi","family":"Walther","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), UW-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"243","DOI":"10.1007\/BF01993560","article-title":"The nuclei of natural cloud formation, part II, the supersaturation in natural clouds and the variation of cloud droplet concentration","volume":"43","author":"Twomey","year":"1959","journal-title":"Pure Appl. 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