WITH THE ABILITY TO EXTRACT THE STRATOCUMULUS AND CUMULUS CLOUDS OF INTEREST UNDER CONTROLLED METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS THROUGH THE USE OF MODIS CLOUD REGIMES ALONG WITH RELEVANT MEASUREMENTS OF VARIABLES DERIVED FROM AMSR AIRS CERES AND AVHRR WE PROPOSE TO DETERMINE THE IMPORTANCE OF DECOUPLING IN THE EXTRATROPICS. WE THEN PROPOSE TO DETERMINE THE RADIATIVE AND CLIMATIC IMPACT OF THESE TRANSITIONS IN THE EXTRATROPICAL BOUNDARY LAYER USING TWO DIFFERENT METHODS. THE FIRST METHOD INVOLVES THE USE OF CLOUD RADIATIVE KERNELS TO COMPUTE A CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH FEEDBACK DUE TO BOUNDARY LAYER DECOUPLING. THE SECOND METHOD INVOLVES THE USE OF CLOUD SUBREGIMES TO INFER THE INFLUENCE OF INCREASING SURFACE TEMPERATURE ON CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH THROUGH BOUNDARY LAYER DECOUPLING FROM WHICH CLOUD FEEDBACKS CAN BE INFERRED. THUS THE PROPOSED WORK LEVERAGES THE USAGE OF CLEVER DIAGNOSIS OF SATELLITE DATA TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE UNDERLYING PHYSICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN CLOUD FEEDBACKS WHICH IS CURRENTLY ONE OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITIES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE.