Investigations of cloud layer base and top heights from 95 GHz radar reflectivity data

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-171

  Danne, O ^a,c   Quante, M ^a   Raschke, E ^a   Weitkamp, C ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Inst for Chem and Phys Analytics   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0032858551     PISSN: 14641909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1909(98)00032-X     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Arking, A., The radiative effects of clouds and their impact on climate. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 71, 795-813, 1991.
2. Brown, P.R.A., Illingworth, A.J., Heymsfield, A.J., McFarquhar, G.M., Browning, K.A., and Gosset, M., The role of spaceborne millimeter-wave radar in the global monitoring of ice cloud. J. Appl. Meteorol., 34, 2346-2366, 1995.
3. Clothiaux, E.E., Miller, M.A., Albrecht, B.A., Ackerman, T.P., Verlinde, J., Babb, D.M., Peters, R.M., and Syrett, W.J., An evaluation of a 94 GHz radar for remote sensing of cloud properties. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 12, 201-229, 1995.
4. Danne, O., Quante, M., Milferstädt, D., Lemke, H., and Raschke, E., Relationships between the Doppler spectral moments within large-scale cirro- and altostratus cloud fields observed by a ground-based 95 GHz radar. J. Appl. Meteorol., in press, 1998.
5. Doviak, R.J., and Zrnić, D.S., Doppler radar and weather observations. Second edition. Academic Press, San Diego, 562 pp., 1993.
6. Lemke, H., Quante, M., Danne, O., and Raschke, E.: The Discrete Dipole Approximation for assessing the feasibility of polarimetric 95 GHz radar measurements. Preprints, AMS Conference on Light Scattering by Non-spherical Particles, September 29 - October 1, 1998, New York.
7. Quante, M., Danne, O., Lemke, H., Milferstädt, D., and Raschke, E., The GKSS 95-GHz radar: System description and potential contributions in support of the Earth Radiation Mission. In: M. Quante, J.P.V. Poiares Baptista, E. Raschke, eds.: Proceedings of the Workshop on Synergy of Active Instruments in the Earth Radiation Mission. Report ESA EWP-1968 / GKSS 98/E/10 : pp. 75-80, 1998.
8. Raschke, E., Karstens, U., Nolte-Holube, R., Brandt, R., Isemer, H.-J., Lohmann, D., Lobmeyr, M., Rockel, B., and R. Stuhlmann: The Baltic Sea Experiment BALTEX: A brief overview and some selected results of the authors. Surv. Geophys., 19, 1-22, 1998.
9. Riley, J.R., Remote sensing in entomology. Ann. Rev. Entomol., 34, 247-271, 1989.
10. Sekelsky, S.M., and McIntosh, R.E., Cloud observations with a polarimetric 33 GHz and 95 GHz radar. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 59, 123-140, 1996.
11. Vaughn, C.R., Birds and insects as radar targets: A review.Proc. IEEE, 73, 205-227, 1985.
12. Weitkamp, C., Flint, H., Lahmann, W., Theopold, F.A., Danne, O., Quante, M., and Raschke, E., Simultaneous radar and lidar cloud measurements at Geesthacht (53.5° N, 10.5° E). Accepted for publication in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.