Abstract: Profiles of the microphysical properties of clouds and rain cells are essential in many areas of atmospheric research and operational meteorology. To enhance the understanding of the nonlinear and underconstrained relationships ...

Abstract: Submillimeter-wave radiometry is a new technique for determining ice water path (IWP) and particle size in upper-tropospheric ice clouds. The first brightness temperatures images of ice clouds above 340 GHz were measured ...

Abstract: n this study, two different particle models describing the structure and electromagnetic properties of snow are developed and evaluated for potential use in satellite combined radar?radiometer precipitation estimation ...

Abstract: Extremely dry conditions characterized by amounts of precipitable water vapor (PWV) as low as 1?2 mm commonly occur in high-latitude regions during the winter months. While such dry atmospheres carry only a few percent of ...

Abstract: s a component of Earth?s hydrologic cycle, and especially at higher latitudes, falling snow creates snowpack accumulation that in turn provides a large proportion of the freshwater resources required by many communities ...