Physics
Scientific paper
May 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3409808m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 9, CiteID L09808
Physics
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Atmospheric Processes: Clouds And Cloud Feedbacks, Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Processes: Precipitation (1854)
Scientific paper
Measurements of global hydrometeor coverage and occurrence frequencies as observed by the cloud radar on CloudSat are summarized using data collected during Summer 2006. CloudSat was launched on 28 April 2006 and began collecting data routinely on 7 June 2006. In this article we document the distribution of cloudiness from the ITCZ to the Polar regions as observed by CloudSat during the first summer of operations. The overall global hydrometeor coverage as observed by CloudSat is found to be 0.506. The vertical distribution of zonally averaged hydrometeor occurrence shows the relationship of clouds with components of the atmospheric general circulation such as the Hadley Cell, the ubiquitous storms over the Southern Ocean, and the subtropical stratocumulus regimes.
Mace Gerald G.
Marchand Roger
Stephens Graeme
Zhang Qiquing
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