The Sensitivity of Microwave Remote Sensing Observations of Precipitation to Ice Particle Size Distributions

By Ralf Bennartz, Grant W. Petty. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Wei Huang
2. Grant W. Petty
3. Fuzhong Weng
4. Peter Bauer
5. Thomas J. Greenwald
6. Yong Chen
7. Mark S. Kulie
8. Guosheng Liu

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Peter Bauer
2. Wei Huang
3. Fuzhong Weng
4. Thomas J. Greenwald
5. Yong Chen
6. Mark S. Kulie
7. Ralf Bennartz
8. Guosheng Liu

Citations in the corpus

• Sensitivity of microwave radiances at 85–183 GHz to precipitating ice particles (2003, background): “…SCIENCE, VOL. 38, NO. 4, 8075, doi:10.1029/2002RS002626, 2003 MAR 40–1 depends crucially on the assumptions made for particle size distributions and particle density, and mixing rule [Gasiewski, 1992; Burns et al., 1997; Skofronick-Jackson and Wang, 2000; Bennartz and Petty, 2001].”
• Microwave Backscatter and Extinction by Soft Ice Spheres and Complex Snow Aggregates (2010, methodology): “, aggregate of numerous smaller vapor-grown crystals) has often been modeled as an equal-mass sphere consisting of a blend of ice and air (Petty 2001; Bennartz and Petty 2001; Liu 2004). The dielectric properties of the mixture are then calculated using an effective medium approximation, such as tha”
• Approximation of Single Scattering Properties of Ice and Snow Particles for High Microwave Frequencies (2004, background): “…or a low-density sphere with a diameter of the particle’s maximum dimension, but with a reduced effective dielectric constant (Schols et al. 1999; Bennartz and Petty 2001; Zhao and Weng 2002), which is derived by mixing solid ice and air following a certain mixing formula (hereafter referred…”
• The Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation from Space: A Review (2007, background): “(i) What are the size distributions, shapes and densities of ice particles, and how are these related to the vertical cloud development? Scattering signatures and thus the depression of TB due to ice particles is shown clearly to be very sensitive to these assumptions (Bennartz and Petty 2001).”
• Uncertainties in Microwave Properties of Frozen Precipitation: Implications for Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation (2010, methodology): “…at higher microwave frequencies due to precipitation-sized frozen hydrometers has been well documented (e.g., Spencer et al. 1989; Petty 1994; Bennartz and Petty 2001) and serves as the primary physical basis for passive microwave remote sensing of precipitation, especially over land…”