Journal article
Comparison of Cloud Top Altitudes from Passive and Active Remote Sensors onboard ER-2 during TC4
Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008) (AIP Conference Proceddings Series Volume 1100), Vol.1100, pp.474-477
01/01/2009
DOI: 10.1063/1.3117024
Abstract
Cloud altitude is one of the key properties for the Earth radiation budget. There still exist large uncertainties on cloud altitude as well as optical and microphysical properties for high altitude clouds, in particular. Targeting the high altitude clouds around tropical tropopause transition layer (TTL), the Tropical Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling (TC4) Experiment was carried out, based on Costa Rica during July and August 2007. In this campaign, NASA's high altitude airplane, ER-2, made remote sensing observation, and we obtained precious data with both passive and active remote sensors, such as Imager, Sounder, LIDAR, Radar, and so on. In this study, we compare cloud top altitudes using colocated datasets with Imager, LIDAR, and Sounder onboard the high altitude airplane. We have preliminary results, which are generally consistent with the former field campaign based on Hawaii during February and March 2003. We discuss the consistency between IR sounding and LIDAR backscattering measurements, and also show a result with respect to cloud optical and microphysical properties.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparison of Cloud Top Altitudes from Passive and Active Remote Sensors onboard ER-2 during TC4
- Creators
- Makoto KujiSteven PlatnickMichael KingGeorge ArnoldGala WindMatthew McGillWilliam HartDennis HlavkaRobert Holz
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008) (AIP Conference Proceddings Series Volume 1100), Vol.1100, pp.474-477
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.3117024
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- eISSN
- 1551-7616
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984276452602771
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