Retrieving the microphysical properties of opaque liquid water clouds from CALIOP measurements

Microphysical Properties of Clouds with Low Liquid Water Paths: An Update from Clouds with Low Optical (Water) Depth

Retrieving Properties of Thin Clouds from Solar Aureole Measurements

This paper describes a newly designed Sun and Aureole Measurement (SAM) aureolegraph and the first results obtained with this instrument. SAM measurements of solar aureoles produced by cirrus and cumulus clouds were taken at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) Central Facility in Oklahoma during field experiments conducted in June 2007 and compared with simultaneous measurements...

Evaluation of CALIOP 532 nm aerosol optical depth over opaque water clouds

With its height-resolved measurements and near global coverage, the CALIOP lidar onboard the CALIPSO satellite offers a new capability for aerosol retrievals in cloudy skies. Validation of these retrievals is difficult, however, as independent, collocated and co-temporal data sets are generally not available. In this paper, we evaluate CALIOP aerosol products above opaque water clouds by applyi...

On retrieving the microphysical properties of cirrus clouds using the moments of the millimeterwavelength Doppler spectrum

[1] Techniques that use only measurements provided by millimeter-wavelength Doppler radar for retrieving the properties of clouds provide certain practical advantages over techniques that require measurements from multiple instruments. We concentrate on the capacity of the moments of the Doppler spectrum to provide information suitable for retrieving the microphysical properties of cirrus cloud...

Microphysical properties of stratocumulus clouds

Data collected in situ with the Meteo-France Merlin-IV instrumented aircraft during the EUCREX mission 206 are analyzed to document cloud properties that are relevant to the calculation of cloud radiative properties. Ascents and descents through the cloud layer reveal that Ž . most of the vertical profiles of liquid water content LWC and droplet sizes are close to adiabatic profiles. Analysis o...