Validation of trade wind cumulus cloud properties derived from meteorological satellites

Iliana Genkova; Guangyu Zhao; Gabriela Seiz; Eric Snodgrass; Marile Colon; Larry Di Girolamo; Bob Rauber

doi:10.1117/12.627907

Validation of trade wind cumulus cloud properties derived from meteorological satellites

Iliana Genkova, Guangyu Zhao, Gabriela Seiz, Eric Snodgrass, Marile Colon, Larry Di Girolamo, Bob Rauber

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Trade wind cumulus clouds typically have horizontal sizes of tens of meters to tens of kilometers. Cloud products from MISR and MODIS instruments are available at spatial resolutions varying from 1 km to 5 km. Therefore some of these clouds have been poorly detected and studied. For the duration of the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) experiment, November 2004 - January 2005, data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is available at 15 meters spatial resolution. We use this data along with a suite of aircraft data available as part of RICO to validate cloud macro-physical properties derived from meteorological satellites.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	59790A
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5979
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.627907
State	Published - 2005
Event	Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere X - Bruges, Belgium Duration: Sep 19 2005 → Sep 21 2005

Keywords

Cloud cover
Cloud properties
Cloud size
Cloud top height
Trade wind cumulus
Validation

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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