Droplet Effective Radius and Cloud Optical Depth
Evaluation of the Effect of Upper-Level Cirrus Clouds on Satellite Retrievals of Low-Level Cloud Droplet Effective Radius
... low-level cloud droplet r e requires meticulous cloud-type ...for cloud type classification, the method is subject to the contamination of upper-level thin cirrus clouds that reside above the ...
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Effective radius of cloud droplets by ground-based remote sensing: Relationship to aerosol
... notably cloud droplet effective radius r e , as shown in the figure, and column water ...to cloud optical depth as shown in Figure 1b, which displays a nearly linear ...
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The Effect of Droplet Size Distribution on the Determination of Cloud Droplet Effective Radius
... Introduction Cloud microphysical processes can provide links between cloud radiative effect and hydrological cycle and create several feedback mechanisms linking clouds and ...modifies cloud ...
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Cloud Retrieval Algorithms for MODIS: Optical Thickness, Effective Particle Radius, and Thermodynamic Phase
... the cloud optical thickness at ...the effective particle ...the cloud optical thickness is largely determined by the reflection function at a nonabsorbing wavelength ...the ...
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Feasibility study of multi-pixel retrieval of optical thickness and droplet effective radius of inhomogeneous clouds using deep learning
... retrieves cloud proper- ties directly from the reflectances at four ...SCALE-LES cloud- field data at a horizontal resolution of 280 ...improving cloud retrievals with 3-D radiative effects taken ...
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Sensitivity of liquid cloud optical thickness and effective radius retrievals to cloud bow and glory conditions using two SEVIRI imagers
... Both cloud glory and cloud bow are apparent as irregularities in the diurnal evolution of reflectances, especially in the visible channel, whereas their effect is partially smoothed in the ...The ...
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Differences in liquid cloud droplet effective radius and number concentration estimates between MODIS collections 5.1 and 6 over global oceans
... of cloud water over a larger number of droplets compared to an unperturbed cloud by supplying ad- ditional cloud condensation nuclei (CCN; Twomey, ...
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IMPACT OF DRIZZLE AND 3D CLOUD STRUCTURE ON REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD EFFECTIVE RADIUS
... of cloud particle size with passive sensors like MODIS is an important tool for cloud microphysical ...relevant droplet size, effective radius can be retrieved with different ...
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Ewald, Florian (2016): Retrieval of vertical profiles of cloud droplet effective radius using solar reflectance from cloud sides. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... infer cloud optical thickness and droplet size from cloud tops, cloud sides have remained largely uncharted territory for passive remote ...of cloud sides, ‘classical’ passive ...
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A spectral method for discriminating thermodynamic phase and retrieving cloud optical thickness and effective radius using transmitted solar radiance spectra
... liquid cloud, where both ice and liquid cloud particles influence the transmit- ted radiance ...the cloud as liquid because the normalized radiance magnitudes indicated that the cloud was ...
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Remote sensing of cloud droplet radius profiles using solar reflectance from cloud sides – Part 1: Retrieval development and characterization
... particular, cloud albedo and the for- mation of precipitation are influenced by aerosol particles within ...from cloud droplet growth to changes in cloud radiative properties, remote sensing ...
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Influence of ice crystal shape on retrieval of cirrus optical thickness and effective radius: A case study
... lidar-derived t agree with results for solid columns and a mixture of particle habits. During the second half of the time series, t values from lidar measurements are more similar to the assumption of hexagonal plates. ...
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The impact of neglecting ice phase on cloud optical depth retrievals from AERONET cloud mode observations
... ice cloud and the bottom layer is filled with liquid cloud, both with a cloud fraction of ...these cloud layers are varied in two ways. First, the total combined optical depth of ...
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Airborne Passive Remote Sensing of Optical Thickness and Particle Effective Radius of Cirrus and Deep Convective Clouds
... turbed cloud top regions, small and pristine crystals in the form of hexagonal plates, bullets and bullet-rosettes are most common ...on droplet and crystal), which are believed to form, either when ...
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A review of cloud top height and optical depth histograms from MISR, ISCCP, and MODIS
... m cloud mask, and (3) pass a variety of spectral tests for removal of questionable heavy aerosol or glint ...retrieved optical depth will be less than the cloud fraction that one would ...
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Optical thickness and effective radius of Arctic boundary-layer clouds retrieved from airborne nadir and imaging spectrometry
... the cloud optical thickness gives us the op- portunity to feed a very realistic cloud field into a Monte Carlo model of radiative ...a cloud layer can be investi- ...the cloud ...
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Application of oxygen A-band equivalent width to disambiguate downwelling radiances for cloud optical depth measurement
... and effective light block- ing performance, is located just inside the input window and driven by an inexpensive stepping ...diameter optical fiber (D) which feeds the light into the CGS ...
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Comparing airborne and satellite retrievals of cloud optical thickness and particle effective radius using a spectral radiance ratio technique: two case studies for cirrus and deep convective clouds
... The nadir point of MODIS moves much faster than the air- craft. Therefore, it is impossible that SMART and MODIS always measure exactly above each other along the joint flight track. To analyze the effects caused by time ...
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Technical note on MISR Cloud-Top-Height Optical-depth (CTH-OD) joint histogram product
... and cloud edges Because satellite pixels can be partially filled by clouds, the fraction of satellite pixels containing some amount of cloud (what one might call the “imager-retrieved” cloud ...
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Testing remote sensing on artificial observations: impact of drizzle and 3-D cloud structure on effective radius retrievals
... PPH cloud model ...the optical thick- ness retrieval, as seen in Table ...small optical thickness ...“true” effective radius due to the fact that they are covered by ...LES ...
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