Statistical retrieval of thin liquid cloud microphysical properties using ground-based infrared and microwave observations

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Title:Main Title: Statistical retrieval of thin liquid cloud microphysical properties using ground-based infrared and microwave observations
Description:Abstract: In this article, liquid water cloud microphysical properties are retrieved by a combination of microwave and infrared ground-based observations. Clouds containing liquid water are frequently occurring in most climate regimes and play a significant role in terms of interaction with radiation. Small perturbations in the amount of liquid water contained in the cloud can cause large variations in the radiative fluxes. This effect is enhanced for thin clouds (liquid water path, LWP <100 g/m 2 ), which makes accurate retrieval information of the cloud properties crucial. Due to large relative errors in retrieving low LWP values from observations in the microwave domain and a high sensitivity for infrared methods when the LWP is low, a synergistic retrieval based on a neural network approach is built to estimate both LWP and cloud effective radius ( r eff ). These statistical retrievals can be applied without high computational demand but imply constraints like prior information on cloud phase and cloud layering. The neural network retrievals are able to retrieve LWP and r eff for thin clouds with a mean relative error of 9% and 17%, respectively. This is demonstrated using synthetic observations of a microwave radiometer (MWR) and a spectrally highly resolved infrared interferometer. The accuracy and robustness of the synergistic retrievals is confirmed by a low bias in a radiative closure study for the downwelling shortwave flux, even for marginally invalid scenes. Also, broadband infrared radiance observations, in combination with the MWR, have the potential to retrieve LWP with a higher accuracy than a MWR-only retrieval.
Identifier:10.1002/2016JD025667 (DOI)
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Creators:Tobias Marke (Author), Kerstin Ebell (Author), Ulrich Löhnert (Author), David Turner (Author)
Publisher:Wiley
Publication Year:2016
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TR32 Topic:Atmosphere
Related Subproject:D2
Subjects:Keywords: Microwave Radiometer, Liquid Water, Atmospheric Measurement
Geogr. Information Topic:Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
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Filename:Marke_et_al_2016_JGA.pdf
Data Type:Text - Article
File Size:2.7 MB
Dates:Accepted: 17.11.2016
Submitted: 18.07.2016
Available: 20.12.2016
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Data Format:PDF
Language:English
Status:Completed
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Publication Status:Published
Review Status:Peer reviewed
Publication Type:Article
Article Type:Journal
Source:Journal of Geophysical Reserach: Atmospheres
Source Website:http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/jgr/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-8996
Issue:24
Volume:121
Number of Pages:1016 (14558 - 15573)
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Metadata Creator:Tobias Marke
Metadata Created:30.11.2016
Metadata Last Updated:30.11.2016
Subproject:D2
Funding Phase:3
Metadata Language:English
Metadata Version:V50
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