Study of cloud properties using airborne and satellite measurements

Andreea Boscornea; Sabina Stefan; Sorin Nicolae Vajaiac

doi:10.1117/12.2066185

12 August 2014 Study of cloud properties using airborne and satellite measurements

Andreea Boscornea, Sabina Stefan, Sorin Nicolae Vajaiac

Proceedings Volume 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014); 922906 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2066185
Event: Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 2014, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

The present study investigates cloud microphysics properties using aircraft and satellite measurements. Cloud properties were drawn from data acquired both from in situ measurements with state of the art airborne instrumentation and from satellite products of the MODIS06 System. The used aircraft was ATMOSLAB - Airborne Laboratory for Environmental Atmospheric Research, property of the National Institute for Aerospace Research "Elie Carafoli" (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania, which is specially equipped for this kind of research. The main tool of the airborne laboratory is a Cloud, Aerosol and Precipitation Spectrometer - CAPS (30 bins, 0.51- 50 μm). The data was recorded during two flights during the winter 2013-2014, over a flat region in the south-eastern part of Romania (between Bucharest and Constanta). The analysis of cloud particle size variations and cloud liquid water content provided by CAPS can explain cloud processes, and can also indicate the extent of aerosols effects on clouds. The results, such as cloud coverage and/or cloud types, microphysical parameters of aerosols on the one side and the cloud microphysics parameters obtained from aircraft flights on the other side, was used to illustrate the importance of microphysics cloud properties for including the radiative effects of clouds in the regional climate models.

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Andreea Boscornea, Sabina Stefan, and Sorin Nicolae Vajaiac "Study of cloud properties using airborne and satellite measurements", Proc. SPIE 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 922906 (12 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2066185

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Clouds

Aerosols

Atmospheric particles

Satellites

MODIS

Refractive index

Climatology

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