University of Tabriz Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2008-7918 47 86 2017 05 22 Initial Assessment of Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination over the Eastern Regions of Iran Using CALIOP Satellite Data Initial Assessment of Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination over the Eastern Regions of Iran Using CALIOP Satellite Data 21 33 6227 FA Sina Zahediasl Department of Remote Sensing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad Alireza Faridhosseini Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad Yong-Sang Choi Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Ruzbeh Shad Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad Alireza Seyedin Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Mashhad Journal Article 2017 06 17 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. 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. https://ceej.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_6227_21b67c4f130e9bba749d9b1eca1cf54b.pdf