Abstract: There has been considerable discussion concerning the accuracy of values of ice water content (IWC) in ice clouds derived from measurements of radar reflectivity (Z). In this paper, the various published relationships that ...

Abstract: Polarization radar techniques essentially rely on detecting the oblateness of raindrops to provide a measure of mean raindrop size and then using this information to give a better estimate of rainfall rate R than is available ...

Abstract: Spaceborne millimeter-wave radar has been identified as a possible instrument to make global measurements in ice clouds, which have an important but poorly understood role in the earth?s radiation budget. In this paper, ...

Abstract: Cloud liquid water and ice content retrieval in precipitating clouds by the differential attenuation method using a dual-wavelength radar, as a function of the wavelength pair, is first discussed. In the presence of ...

Abstract: The radiative characteristics of stratocumulus clouds are dependent upon their microphysical properties, primarily the liquid water content and effective radius of the drop population. Aircraft observations of droplet ...

Abstract: The radar reflectivity and liquid water content of stratocumulus clouds have been computed from cloud droplet spectra recorded during more than 4000 km of cloud penetrations by an aircraft, and the probability of detecting ...

Abstract: Cloud variability on scales smaller than the gridbox size of numerical forecast and climate models is believed to be important in determining the radiative effects of clouds, and increasingly attempts are being made to ...

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Abstract: A technique is described to retrieve stratocumulus liquid water content (LWC) using the differential attenuation measured by vertically pointing radars at 35 and 94 GHz. Millimeter-wave attenuation is proportional to LWC ...

Abstract: Of great importance for the simulation of climate using general circulation models is their ability to represent accurately the vertical distribution of fractional cloud amount. In this paper, a technique to derive cloud ...