COMBINED INFRARED-EMISSION SPECTRA AND RADAR REFLECTIVITY STUDIES OF CIRRUS CLOUDS

Authors
PALMER AJ MATROSOV SY MARTNER BE UTTAL T LYNCH DK CHATELAIN MA HACKWELL JA RUSSELL RW
Citation
Aj. Palmer et al., COMBINED INFRARED-EMISSION SPECTRA AND RADAR REFLECTIVITY STUDIES OF CIRRUS CLOUDS, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 31(1), 1993, pp. 64-69
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing → ACNP
ISSN journal
01962892
Volume
31
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
64 - 69
Database
ISI
SICI code
0196-2892(1993)31:1<64:CISARR>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Thermal-infrared emission spectra from cirrus clouds taken with a uniq ue prism spectrograph are combined with K(a)-band radar reflectivity m easurements to obtain mass concentration and size information on the c irrus ice crystals. A two-stream radiation transfer model utilizing Mi e scattering theory was used to infer averaged effective ice sphere di ameters which, for the cirrus studied, was near 50 mum.