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RISA Database of Microwave Single-Scattering Properties for Nonspherical Ice Particles
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: As satellite observations at high microwave frequencies have recently become available, there is an increasing demand for methods that accurately evaluate the single-scattering properties of nonspherical ice particles at ...
Approximation of Single Scattering Properties of Ice and Snow Particles for High Microwave Frequencies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: As satellite high-frequency passive microwave data have recently become available, there is an increasing demand for an accurate and computationally efficient method to calculate the single scattering properties of ...
A Critical Examination of the Observed First Aerosol Indirect Effect
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The relative change in cloud droplet number concentration with respect to the relative change in aerosol number concentration, α, is an indicator of the strength of the aerosol indirect effect and is commonly used in models ...
The Variability of Tropical Precipitation Profiles and Its Impact on Microwave Brightness Temperatures as Inferred from TRMM Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Precipitation radar and microwave radiometer data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite are used to study the variability of precipitation profiles and the relationship between precipitation ...
Possible Misidentification of Rain Type by TRMM PR over Tibetan Plateau
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Rain-type statistics derived from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR) standard product show that some 70% of raining pixels in the central Tibetan Plateau summer are stratiform?a clear ...
Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrievals Using TMI during the Baiu Period of 1998. Part I: Algorithm Description and Validation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Baiu front is a subtropical convergence zone that is formed over east Asia in early summer (hereinafter referred to as the Baiu period). In this study, an overocean precipitation retrieval algorithm is developed to ...
The Characteristics of Ice Cloud Properties Derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he characteristics of ice clouds with a wide range of optical depths are studied based on satellite retrievals and radiative transfer modeling. Results show that the global-mean ice cloud optical depth, ice water path, and ...
Partitioning Solid and Liquid Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau Based on Satellite Radar Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Determination of 3D Cloud Ice Water Contents by Combining Multiple Data Sources from Satellite, Ground Radar, and a Numerical Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study aims at determining the three-dimensional distribution of ice water content over a broad area near the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Southern Great Plains site, where cloud radar and meteorological ...
Tropical Ice Water Amount and Its Relations to Other Atmospheric Hydrological Parameters as Inferred from Satellite Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An over-ocean ice water path (IWP) algorithm, using satellite Special Sensor Microwave Water Vapor Sounder (SSM/T-2) data, is presented for clouds during the Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere ...