Relationships between ice water content and volume extinction coefficient from in situ observations for temperatures from 0° to -86°C: Implications for spaceborne lidar retrievals

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 479-505

  Heymsfield, Andrew ^a   Winker, Dave ^b   Avery, Melody ^b   Vaughan, Mark ^b   Diskin, Glenn ^b   Deng, Min ^c   Mitev, Valentin ^d   Matthey, Renaud ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d CSEM   (Switzerland)

^e Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Cloud microphysics; Cloud retrieval; Ice crystals; Ice particles

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLOUDS; ICE; PARTICLE SIZE; TRACKING RADAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIPSO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; ICE; ICE CRYSTAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84897584981     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-087.1     Document Type: Article

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