Abstract: olar lows generate hazardous weather conditions in the Arctic, and satellites have played a key role in understanding their genesis and dynamics. For the first time, an overpass of the CloudSat 94-GHz cloud radar over a ...

Abstract: This paper describes how the combination of a satellite-derived cloud classification with surface observations can improve analysis of cloud-base height. A cloud-base retrieval that combines a cloud classification derived ...

Abstract: he Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges project (GEWEX) water vapor assessment?s (G-VAP) main objective is to analyze and explain strengths and weaknesses of satellite-based data records of water vapor through ...

Abstract: he Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites allows roughly for the same region of Earth to be sampled twice in a nowcasting time frame. Using the MODIS cloud mask ...

Abstract: he NOAA operational total precipitable water (TPW) anomaly product is available to forecasters to display percentage of normal TPW in real time for applications like heavy precipitation forecasts. In this work, the TPW ...

Abstract: he launch of the NASA CloudSat in April 2006 enabled the first satellite-based global observation of vertically resolved cloud information. However, CloudSat?s nonscanning W-band (94 GHz) Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) provides ...

Abstract: nowledge of cloud-base height (CBH) is important to describe cloud radiative feedbacks in numerical models and is of practical relevance to the aviation community. Whereas satellite remote sensing with passive radiometers ...

Abstract: louds pose many operational hazards to the aviation community in terms of ceilings and visibility, turbulence, and aircraft icing. Realistic descriptions of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution and temporal evolution ...