A new approach for retrieval of the total atmospheric water vapor content (TAWV) based on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) two thermal IR (TIR) channels (ch31 and ch32) is proposed. To developing the approach, the radiative transfer calculations are carried out using MODTRAN 4.0 combined with the latest global assimilated data, and the pixels contaminated by clouds are elimi...

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place during the spring of 2011 centered in north-central Oklahoma, USA. The main goal of this field campaign was to capture the dynamical and microphysical characteristics of precipitating convective systems in the US Central Plains. A major component of the campaign was a six-site radiosonde array designed to capture the lar...

[1] Two cases of upstream propagation of atmospheric solitons generated by atmospheric flow over topography were identified on two RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired near St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea on 7 September 1997 and 6 June 2001, respectively. In both cases, a group of solitons was shown as three darkbright linear features on the SAR images. The soliton wi...

Article history: Received 8 August 2012 Received in revised form 20 September 2012 Accepted 9 October 2012 Available online 3 November 2012 Many of the meteorological phenomena occurring at meso-γ require observations sufficiently close together in time and space. The multichannel microwave radiometer (MMWR) provides continuous temperature and humidity profiles. We demonstrate a method for prof...

Comparisons are made between horizontal wind measurements carried out using a VHF-radar system at Aberystwyth (52.4°N, 4.1°W) and radiosondes launched from Aberporth, some 50 km to the southwest. The radar wind results are derived from Doppler wind measurements at zenith angles of 6° in two orthogonal planes and in the vertical direction. Measurements on a total of 398 days over a 2-year period...

During the European heat wave summer 2003 with predominant high pressure conditions we performed a detailed study of upper tropospheric humidity and ice particles which yielded striking results concerning the occurrence of ice supersaturated regions (ISSR), cirrus, and contrails. Our study is based on lidar observations and meteorological data obtained at Lindenberg/Germany (52.2 N, 14.1 E) as ...

Two deep-layer tropospheric temperature products, one for the lower troposphere (T2LT) and one for the midtroposphere (T2, which includes some stratospheric emissions), are based on the observations of channel 2 of the microwave sounding unit on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar-orbiting satellites. Revisions to version C of these datasets have been explicitly applied...