Retrieval of Layer Averaged Relative Humidity Profiles from MHS Observations over Tropical Region

A layer-averaged relative humidity profile retrieval for microwave observations: design and results for the Megha-Tropiques payload

A statistical method trained and optimized to retrieve seven-layer relative humidity (RH) profiles is presented and evaluated with measurements from radiosondes. The method makes use of the microwave payload of the Megha-Tropiques platform, namely the SAPHIR sounder and the MADRAS imager. The approach, based on a generalized additive model (GAM), embeds both the physical and statistical charact...

Retrieval of Hydrometeor Profiles in Tropical Cyclones and Convection from Combined Radar and Radiometer Observations

A retrieval algorithm is described to estimate vertical profiles of precipitation ice water content and liquid water content in tropical cyclones and convection over ocean from combined spaceborne radar and radiometer measurements. In the algorithm, the intercept parameter N0s in the exponential particle size distribution for rain, snow, and graupel are adjusted iteratively to minimize the diff...

Retrieval of OClO profiles from OSIRIS limb observations

Retrieving the vertical distribution of stratospheric OClO from Odin/OSIRIS limb-scattered sunlight measurements P. Krecl, C. S. Haley, J. Stegman, S. M. Brohede, and G. Berthet Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, York University, Toronto, Canada Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technolog...

Tropical stratospheric aerosol layer from CALIPSO lidar observations

Observations of relative humidity effects on aerosol light scattering

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