Monte Carlo calculations of polarized microwave radiation emerging from 3-D cloud structures

Author

Roberti, Laura ; Kummerow, Christian

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

708

Abstract

SSM/I microwave measurements of mesoscale convective systems (MCS) often show significant polarization differences (ΔT_V-H) at 85 GHz in the anvil regions of clouds. To try to understand how these differences in brightness temperature (T_B) are related to the microphysical cloud parameters, simulations on realistic cloud models are necessary. To this end, a Monte Carlo method for the solution of the 3-D radiative transfer equation in the microwave has been extended to compute the Stokes parameters

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; atmospheric radiation; clouds; electromagnetic wave polarisation; meteorology; radiative transfer; 3-D cloud structures; 3-D radiative transfer equation; 85 GHz; Monte Carlo calculations; Stokes parameters; anvil regions; brightness temperature; mesoscale convective systems; polarized microwave radiation; Clouds; Computational modeling; Equations; Land surface; Microwave measurements; Monte Carlo methods; Polarization; Rain; Scattering parameters; Stokes parameters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520563

Filename

520563