Cloud liquid water and ice content retrieval by multiwavelength radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the determination of the liquid water content profile of clouds. Two cases...corresponding to the main part of the liquid water content and controlling the radiative...small contribution to the liquid water content of the cloud. In ice clouds...

The temperature dependence of the liquid water path of low clouds in the...

Journal of Climate;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the idea that increasing liquid water content with temperature combined...This behavior occurs because liquid water content shows no detectable temperature...illustrate that increases in cloud liquid water content with rising temperature could...

An Integrated Approach toward Retrieving Physically Consistent Profiles of...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......temperature, humidity, and cloud liquid water content. This approach combines a...accuracy. It is shown that the liquid water content profiles obtained with the...where the relative error in liquid water content ranges from 15% to 25%. A...

On the Definition of the Cloud Water Content Fluctuations and Its Effects...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of the cloud water content fluctuations. The second-order liquid water correlations...prognostic equation of liquid water content. So a fully analytical...CLOUDINESS, MEAN CLOUD LIQUID WATER CONTENT, AND SECOND-ORDER LIQUID WATER CORRELATION ...

The Vertical Profile of Liquid and Ice Water Content in Midlatitude...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......vertical distribution of liquid water content (LWC) and ice water content...bottom. In their study, a liquid water content maximum coexisted with a...found at cloud bottom without liquid water content. Heymsfield et al. (1991...

Doppler cloud radar derived drop size distributions in liquid water...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and vertical profiles of liquid water content and particle effective radius...suggest that the error in the liquid water content vanishes and the magnitudes...observed and the adiabatic liquid water content of stratocumulus clouds...

Evaluation of Radar Reflectivity-Based Estimates of Water Content in...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......stratiform cloud liquid water content (LWC) is evaluated by comparing liquid water path (LWP) estimates...and liquid water content (LWC). The potentially...because the liquid water clouds are usually...estimates of cloud liquid water path ...

Prognostic Equations for Cloud Fraction and Liquid Water, and Their...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......cloud fraction and specific liquid water content. Such equations are carried...mixing cannot usually increase liquid water content but that dissipative mixing...rapidly in regions of high liquid water content and does not occur at all...

Stratocumulus Liquid Water Content from Dual-Wavelength Radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......retrieve stratocumulus liquid water content (LWC) using the differential...in Oklahoma. The liquid water path from the technique...measure the integrated water content of the column, which...for measuring the water content of rain. Eccles and...

Atmospheric liquid water retrieval using a gated experts neural network

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......retrieve atmospheric liquid water content over ocean from radiometer...the integrated cloud liquid water (iclw) and the surface...Atmospheric liquid water content (in cloud or rain...the integrated cloud liquid water (iclw) and the surface...

NASA's Odyssey Supports Viking Experimenter's Early Claim To Liquid Water...

PR Newswire;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in 1976 (1-4), he has contended that liquid water exists on the surface of Mars. A few...develop a theoretical model showing how liquid water occurs on Mars. The validity of the...experimental proof, the presence of liquid water was so key to the controversial issue...

Sources of Error in Dual-Wavelength Radar Remote Sensing of Cloud Liquid...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......including retrievals of cloud liquid water content (LWC) from reflectivity measured...include uncertainty in gas and liquid water attenuation coefficients...quantities such as cloud liquid water content (LWC) and drop size estimates...

Wind tunnel measurements of the response of hot-wire liquid water content...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......response of the Nevzorov total water content (TWC) probe, with its relatively...used devices to estimate cloud liquid water content (LWC) from research aircraft...device, the Nevzorov LWC/total water content (TWC) probe, has been in more...

THIN LIQUID WATER CLOUDS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......small amounts of liquid water, yet despite...retrievals of their liquid water amount and particle...GCMs. Low-level liquid water clouds are arguably...small amounts of liquid water. While these...such as their liquid water content and drop ...

Assessment of vertically integrated liquid (VIL) water content radar...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......integrated liquid (VIL) water content is a parameter obtained...factor Z^sub e^, and liquid water content M adapted to raindrops...relationship adapted to liquid water results in a significant...vertically integrated liquid water content (hereafter ...