Use of the ARM Measurements of Spectral Zenith Radiance for Better Understanding of 3D Cloud-Radiation Processes & Aerosol-Cloud Interaction

Chiu, Jui-Yuan Christine¹ 

[1] University of Reading

关键词: Cloud;    aerosol-cloud interaction;    remote sensing;    radiative transfer;    cloud retrieval;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1127208
RP-ID  :  DOE-READING-SC0006001
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1127208

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This project focuses on cloud-radiation processes in a general three-dimensional cloud situation, with particular emphasis on cloud optical depth and effective particle size. The proposal has two main parts. Part one exploits the large number of new wavelengths offered by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) zenith-pointing ShortWave Spectrometer (SWS), to develop better retrievals not only of cloud optical depth but also of cloud particle size. We also take advantage of the SWS??? high sampling resolution to study the ???twilight zone??? around clouds where strong aerosol-cloud interactions are taking place. Part two involves continuing our cloud optical depth and cloud fraction retrieval research with ARM???s 2-channel narrow vield-of-view radiometer and sunphotometer instrument by, first, analyzing its data from the ARM Mobile Facility deployments, and second, making our algorithms part of ARM???s operational data processing.