Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3420805s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 20, CiteID L20805
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud/Radiation Interaction, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906)
Scientific paper
The rate of coalescence of cloud water to rain is estimated using new global satellite observations. The differing sensitivity of the passive measurements of reflected sunlight from MODIS and the cloud radar measurements of CloudSat to the sizes of cloud water particles in low, warm clouds is exploited for this purpose. The method integrates CloudSat radar reflectivity profiles with the MODIS cloud optical depth and effective radius matched to the radar footprint. The thresholds applied to the mean cloud layer reflectivities ($\bar{Z) are chosen to restrict the observations to the incipient stages of warm rain development. MODIS optical property data provide cloud droplet liquid water path information. These different types of information, when combined, provide a means for estimating the rate of coalescence and hint at a time scale of the coalescence process that varies between about 26 minutes to 3.0 hours.
Haynes John M.
Stephens Graeme L.
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