The impact of ice cloud particle microphysics on the uncertainty of ice water content retrievals

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-196

  Sun, Wenbo ^a   Hu, Yongxiang ^b   Lin, Bing ^b   Liu, Zhaoyan ^c   Videen, Gorden ^d  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud radar; Ice clouds; Ice water content

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; CLOUD RADAR; DUAL WAVELENGTH; ICE CLOUDS; ICE WATER CONTENT; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; MICROPHYSICS; PARTICLE SHAPE; RADAR SIGNALS; RADAR WAVELENGTH; STANDARD PRODUCTS; TRANSMITTED WAVES;

CLOUDS; ICE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; ICE; PARTICLE SIZE; RADAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 78649518030     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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