Remote Sensing of Water and Ice Clouds from MSG/SEVIRI

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Nov 2004

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Proceedings of the Second MSG RAO Workshop (ESA SP-582). Salzburg, Austria, 9 - 10 September 2004. Organised by ESA, in cooperat

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Clouds and their interaction with radiation are still one of the main uncertainties in our understanding of present and the prediction of future climate. MSG/SEVIRI - with its unique combination of time and spatial resolution and spectral information - has the potential of contributing significantly to the reduction of this gap. We have devel- oped a new water and ice cloud detection and microphys- ical properties remote sensing algorithm. Cloud detection and classification is based on a prototype version of the EUMETSAT Scenes Analysis scheme, with a particular emphasis on the detection of thin ice clouds. Cloud mi- crophysical properties are retrieved using tabulated for- ward calculations by a detailed radiative transfer code, libRadtran, which takes into account cloud phase, micro- physical properties as well as a complete description of the background atmosphere and surface. Particular atten- tion is given to the treatment of inhomogeneous clouds where we aim at combining the spectral information of the low-resolution channels with the higher spatial reso- lution of the HRV channel, in order to directly consider sub-pixel cloud inhomogeneity in the retrieval to reduce potential biases. Key words: radiative transfer, cloud, cirrus.

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