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| Titel |
Observing ice clouds in the submillimeter spectral range: the CloudIce mission proposal for ESA's Earth Explorer 8 |
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S. A. Buehler, E. Defer, F. Evans, S. Eliasson, J. Mendrok, P. Eriksson, C. Lee, C. Jimenez, C. Prigent, S. Crewell, Y. Kasai, R. Bennartz, Albin J. Gasiewski |
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Artikel
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Englisch
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| ISSN |
1867-1381
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| Erschienen |
In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ; 5, no. 7 ; Nr. 5, no. 7 (2012-07-06), S.1529-1549 |
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250002998
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/amt-5-1529-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Passive submillimeter-wave sensors are a way to obtain urgently
needed global data on ice clouds, particularly on the so far poorly
characterized "essential climate variable" ice water path (IWP) and
on ice particle size. CloudIce was a mission proposal to the
European Space Agency ESA in response to the call for Earth Explorer
8 (EE8), which ran in 2009/2010. It proposed a passive
submillimeter-wave sensor with channels ranging from 183 GHz
to 664 GHz. The article describes the CloudIce mission
proposal, with particular emphasis on describing the algorithms for
the data-analysis of submillimeter-wave cloud ice data (retrieval
algorithms) and demonstrating their maturity. It is shown that we
have a robust understanding of the radiative properties of cloud ice
in the millimeter/submillimeter spectral range, and that we have a
proven toolbox of retrieval algorithms to work with these
data. Although the mission was not selected for EE8, the concept
will be useful as a reference for other future mission proposals. |
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