Retrieval of cirrus cloud microphysical properties based on TOVS-3I observations

Ralf Holz; Claudia J. Stubenrauch; Noelle A. Scott; David L. Mitchell; Anthony J. Baran

doi:10.1117/12.332670

14 December 1998 Retrieval of cirrus cloud microphysical properties based on TOVS-3I observations

Ralf Holz, Claudia J. Stubenrauch, Noelle A. Scott, David L. Mitchell, Anthony J. Baran

Proceedings Volume 3495, Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332670
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

The inversion of TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder measurements by the Improved Initialization Inversion (3I) Algorithm provides cloud parameters as well as atmospheric temperature and water vapor profiles. By the use of a cirrus radiation scheme based on Anomalous Diffraction Theory, that includes analytical expressions for extinction and absorption coefficients as function of ice particle shapes, size distribution parameters and wavelength, we study the possibility to infer information on cirrus microphysics at global scale from 3I data.

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Ralf Holz, Claudia J. Stubenrauch, Noelle A. Scott, David L. Mitchell, and Anthony J. Baran "Retrieval of cirrus cloud microphysical properties based on TOVS-3I observations", Proc. SPIE 3495, Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere III, (14 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332670

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