The retrieval of total optical depth and effective droplet radius of clouds from solar reflection measurements using the along track scanning radiometer-2 (ATSR-2)

Details The retrieval of total optical depth and effective droplet radius of clouds from solar reflection measurements using the along track scanning radiometer-2 (ATSR-2) The retrieval of total optical depth and effective droplet radius of clouds from solar reflection measurements using the along track scanning radiometer-2 (ATSR-2)

Mar 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22..695e&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 22, Issue 6, p. 695-698

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: General Or Miscellaneous

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A method is presented for the retrieval of liquid phase cloud microphysical properties; effective radius (τeff) and total optical depth (τ) using measurements of reflected intensity in visible and near infrared bands produced by satellite radiometry. Previous techniques have been ambiguous for clouds made up of small water droplets i.e., reff<=6μm. A method exploiting the dual look facility of the Along Track Scanning Radiometer ATSR-2 has been used to remove this problem and determine a unique solution. Explicitly the 0.555μm and the 1.6 μm detectors of ATSR-2 are used to retrieve reff(>=2 μm) and τ (up to the semi-infinite limit).

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