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of remotely sensed data. Physically, it is an area weighted radius of the cloud drop particles.Mathematically, this can be expressed as

The global effective particle radius has different values for water and ice clouds: the former is around 14 um, whereas for ice it is around 25 um. Studies also indicate that the effective cloud droplet radius is larger over oceans than over land by 15%-20%. By contrast, the difference in the ice particle size over land and oceans is much smaller (only 5%).