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RISA Midlatitude Cirrus Cloud Climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Part I: Macrophysical and Synoptic Properties
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A uniquely extensive high cloud dataset has been collected from the University of Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing in support of the First (ISCCP) International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Regional ...
Micropulse Lidar Signals: Uncertainty Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Elastic backscatter lidars are used to determine the vertical distribution of cloud and aerosol layers. One such lidar is the micropulse lidar (MPL). A recent paper by Campbell et al. described an algorithm used to process ...
Elevated Cloud and Aerosol Layer Retrievals from Micropulse Lidar Signal Profiles
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A threshold-based detection algorithm for cloud and aerosol layer heights in elevated micropulse lidar data (0.523 ?m) is described. Thresholds for differentiating cloud and aerosol signals from that of the molecular ...
Evaluating Light Rain Drop Size Estimates from Multiwavelength Micropulse Lidar Network Profiling
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper investigates multiwavelength retrievals of median equivolumetric drop diameter D0 suitable for drizzle and light rain, through collocated 355-/527-nm Micropulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) observations collected during ...
Daytime Cirrus Cloud Top-of-the-Atmosphere Radiative Forcing Properties at a Midlatitude Site and Their Global Consequences
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ne year of continuous ground-based lidar observations (2012) is analyzed for single-layer cirrus clouds at the NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network site at the Goddard Space Flight Center to investigate top-of-the-atmosphere ...
A Conceptual Model for Development of Intense Pyrocumulonimbus in Western North America
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he first observationally based conceptual model for intense pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) development is described by applying reanalyzed meteorological model output to an inventory of 26 intense pyroCb events from June-August ...
Lidar and Triple-Wavelength Doppler Radar Measurements of the Melting Layer: A Revised Model for Dark- and Brightband Phenomena
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: During the recent Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers (CRYSTAL) Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (FACE) field campaign in southern Florida, rain showers were probed by a 0.523-?m lidar and three (0.32-, ...
Supporting Weather Forecasters in Predicting and Monitoring Saharan Air Layer Dust Events as They Impact the Greater Caribbean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractDuring the spring and summer months, the greater Caribbean region typically experiences pulses of moderate to heavy episodes of airborne African dust concentrations that originate over the Sahara Desert and propagate ...
Detection and Inventory of Intense Pyroconvection in Western North America using GOES-15 Daytime Infrared Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ntense wildfires occasionally generate fire-triggered storms, known as pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb), that can inject smoke particles and trace gases into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). This study develops ...