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On cloud radar and microwave radiometer measurements of stratus cloud liquid water profiles

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: We show a method for determining stratus cloud liquid water profiles using a microwave radiometer and cloud radar. This method is independent of the radar calibration and the cloud‐droplet size distribution provided that the sixth moment of the size distribution can be related to the square of the third moment. We have calculated these moments with a wide variety of in situ measurements and show that this is a reasonable assumption. Examples of droplet distributions that meet this requirement are the lognormal and gamma distributions.

Source: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

DOI: 10.1029/98jd01827

Authors: A. S. Frisch, G. Feingold, C. W. Fairall, T. Uttal, J. B. Snider

Language: English

Topic: Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1966218965

FWCI: 8.891

Cites: 14

Cited by: 139

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