Title :
Combined active and passive remote sensing of the properties of cirrus clouds
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Meteorol., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Abstract :
Since October 1987, a uniquely extensive high cloud dataset has been collected from the University of Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (FARS). The measurements, which currently total over 3000-h of ruby (0.694 μm) lidar data, have been directed toward (i) basic cloud physics research, (ii) improving satellite-based and GCM cloud property predictions by providing climatologically representative local cloud statistics, and (iii) creating parameterizations of the mean cirrus cloud radiative properties
Keywords :
atmospheric optics; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; clouds; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; 694 nm; USA; United States; Utah; atmosphere; cirrus; cloud; laser remote sensing; lidar; local statistics; measurement technique; microphysics; optics; parameterization; radiative properties; Cities and towns; Clouds; Ice; Instruments; Laser radar; Optical sensors; Polarization; Remote sensing; Satellites; Signal resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978271
