Cloud is critical in understanding the current climate and it plays an important role in simulating potential climate change.The U.S.Department of Energy(DOE) atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) AMF explored field campaigns that took place in Shouxian in the east of China for the first time in 2008.Based on the observational data,the study presents some preliminary results like cloud height and cloud thickness as well as cloud’s radiative features in Shouxian during late autumn and early winter.It was found that the occurrence of clouds took 76.3% of the observational days and 54.0% of the observational time.Middle cloud(M) and high cloud(H) occupied 76.7% of all the clouds.The weather system is the dominant modulator in cloud formation in Shouxian.In addition,there were more middle clouds(M) transforming into precipitation cloud(P) than low(L) and high cloud(H),which is about 67.7%.Precipitation occurring in the afternoon took 47.8% of all the precipitation cloud.Aerosol affected the distribution of precipitation cloud obviously.The reduced daily mean shortwave radiation caused by the cloud and aerosol was about-99.1 W/m² with aerosol contributing 25.1% of the value.We quantitatively estimate there are obvious differences in the surface radiation budget caused by the clouds of different heights and thicknesses.P cloud produces the largest cooling effect (-201.9 W/m²) while the thickness of less than 2 km H cloud has the smallest cooling effect (-32.9 W/m²).There are evident differences between ground site observation and MODIS data estimation,whose value could be-1.9—-36.9 W/m².