Cloud profiling radar for the CloudSat mission

By E. Im, Chialin Wu, S. Durden. Radar, 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment (2011, background): “UTH is a key climate variable that plays a very important role in Earth’s radiation budget (e.g., Kiehl and Briegleb 1992; Ingram 2010).”
On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implications (2010, methodology): “It 312 should be noted that the consideration of the zero-feedback response, and the tropical feedback 313 factor to be half of the global feedback factor is actually necessary for our measurements from 314 the Tropics; however, these were not considered in Lindzen and Choi [2009]. Accordingly, with”
Relationships among cloud occurrence frequency, overlap, and effective thickness derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat merged cloud vertical profiles (2010, unknown): “, 2007] and CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) [Im et al., 2005] identify multi‐layered cloud top and base heights that are not easily detected with passive sensors.”
Improvements of top-of-atmosphere and surface irradiance computations with CALIPSO-, CloudSat-, and MODIS-derived cloud and aerosol properties (2011, methodology): “[5] CALIPSO and CloudSat, launched in 2006 as part of NASA’ sA ‐train satellite constellation, provide detailed information on cloud and aerosol vertical profiles from tropicstothepoles.Whencloudverticalprofilesderivedfrom Cloud‐Aerosol LidarwithOrthogonalPolarization (CALIOP [Hunt et al., 2009]) an”
Climatology of stratocumulus cloud morphologies: microphysical properties and radiative effects (2014, methodology): “In particular, we use radar backscatter data from the cloud profiling radar (CPR; Im et al., 2006) aboard CloudSat and returns from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP; Winker et al.”
The CloudSat radar‐lidar geometrical profile product (RL‐GeoProf): Updates, improvements, and selected results (2014, methodology): “CloudSat carries a 94 GHz millimeterwavelength cloud profiling radar (CPR) which points nominally in the nadir direction to probe the vertical structure of clouds and precipitation [Im et al., 2006], while CALIPSO uses the cloud-aerosol lidar with MACE AND ZHANG ©2014.”
Global hydrometeor occurrence as observed by CloudSat: Initial observations from summer 2006 (2007, methodology): “(Specific information about the CPR can also be found in the CloudSat Data Products Handbook.)”
The Surface Downwelling Solar Radiation Surplus over the Southern Ocean in the Met Office Model: The Role of Midlatitude Cyclone Clouds (2012, background): “CPR operates at a frequency of 94 GHz (Im et al. 2005), and its pulses sample a volume of 480 m in the vertical, with an approximate horizontal resolution of 1.”