DocumentCode
2140706
Title
Combined active and passive remote sensing of the properties of cirrus clouds
Author
Sassen, Kenneth
Author_Institution
Dept. of Meteorol., Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Volume
7
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
3105
Abstract
Since October 1987, a uniquely extensive high cloud dataset has been collected from the University of Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (FARS). The measurements, which currently total over 3000-h of ruby (0.694 μm) lidar data, have been directed toward (i) basic cloud physics research, (ii) improving satellite-based and GCM cloud property predictions by providing climatologically representative local cloud statistics, and (iii) creating parameterizations of the mean cirrus cloud radiative properties
Keywords
atmospheric optics; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; clouds; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; 694 nm; USA; United States; Utah; atmosphere; cirrus; cloud; laser remote sensing; lidar; local statistics; measurement technique; microphysics; optics; parameterization; radiative properties; Cities and towns; Clouds; Ice; Instruments; Laser radar; Optical sensors; Polarization; Remote sensing; Satellites; Signal resolution;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7031-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978271
Filename
978271
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