Field Tests of an Airborne Remote Sensing Technique for Measuring the Distribution of Liquid Water in Convective Cloud

Abstract

A comparison has been made between the distribution of liquid water in maritime cumulus clouds deduced from radiometric measurements below cloud base and that measured directly by penetrating the clouds at various altitudes. Because the clouds available during the field program were changing quite rapidly, the comparison could only be made on a statistical basis and at coarse spatial resolution. However, on this basis excellent agreement was observed between liquid water values given by the direct and the remote sensing techniques.