An algorithm for retrieval of cloud microphysics using 95-GHz cloud radar and lidar

Cloud Microphysics Retrieval Using S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements

The recent deployment of multiparameter, polarimetric radars provides the impetus for development of microphysical retrievals. The primary objective of this paper is to describe a particle classification technique that makes use of polarimetric radar observations. The particle classification technique is computationally simple enough to be implemented for real-time research and operational fiel...

Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment Validation for Cirrus Cloud Profiling Retrieval Using Cloudsat Radar and CALIPSO lidar

Cirrus Cloud Microphysical Property Retrieval Using Lidar and Radar Measurements. Part I: Algorithm Description and Comparison with In Situ Data

A retrieval algorithm is described to estimate vertical profiles of cirrus-cloud ice water content (IWC) and general effective size Dge from combined lidar and radar measurements. In the algorithm, the lidar extinction coefficient s is parameterized as s 5 IWC[a0 1 (a1/Dge)] and water equivalent radar reflectivity factor Ze is parameterized as Ze 5 C9(IWC/ri) , where a0, a1, C9, and b are const...

An intercomparison of radar-based liquid cloud microphysics retrievals and implications for model evaluation studies

This paper presents a statistical comparison of three cloud retrieval products of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site from 1998 to 2006: MICROBASE, University of Utah (UU), and University of North Dakota (UND) products. The probability density functions of the various cloud liquid water content (LWC) retrievals appear to be consistent with...

FRESCO+ cloud retrieval algorithm

FRESCO+: an improved O2 A-band cloud retrieval algorithm for tropospheric trace gas retrievals P. Wang, P. Stammes, R. van der A, G. Pinardi, and M. van Roozendael Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands BIRA-IASB, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium Received: 21 February 2008 – Accepted: 21 April 2008 – Published: 27 May 2008 Corresponden...