Estimating ice content and extinction in precipitating cloud systems from CloudSat radar measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a,b   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CLOUDS; ERRORS; ICE; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BEST FIT; CLOUDSAT; DATA SCATTER; DATA SETS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; HIGH REFLECTIVITY; ICE CLOUDS; ICE CONTENT; ICE WATER CONTENT; NONSPHERICITY; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PARTICLE SHAPE; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TYPICAL VALUES; W-BAND RADAR;

WATER CONTENT;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; SATELLITE DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 66949145114     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009633     Document Type: Article

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