Title :
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
Abstract :
SSM/I microwave measurements of mesoscale convective systems (MCS) often show significant polarization differences (ΔTV-H) at 85 GHz in the anvil regions of clouds. To try to understand how these differences in brightness temperature (TB) 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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520563
