Initial Assessment of Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination over the Eastern Regions of Iran Using CALIOP Satellite Data

Clouds and aerosols discrimination and also its monitoring always is a big part of human concerns including the modeling of climate systems. Issues related to air pollution and aerosols are one of the major problems of the environment for the residents of the world and the Middle East in recent years. Specific geographical and political conditions which are prevailed in the Middle East, being neighbored with dry and desert countries, also being located in the dust belt path (Liu, Vaughan et al. 2009), increases the necessity of monitoring and discrimination of clouds and aerosols for countries in this region, especially Iran. Aerosols are clearly and explicitly can have an impact on global emission rate and significantly limits the human’s understanding of climate systems and its potential for global climate change which is caused by the absorption, scattering and of course in the sunlight passes through the atmosphere features to the Earth's surface.