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On cloud radar and microwave radiometer measurements of stratus cloud liquid water profiles
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University/NOAA, Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University/NOAA, Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder
NOAA/ERL/Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
NOAA/ERL/Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado/NOAA, Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder
We show a method for determining stratus cloud liquid water profiles using a microwave radiometer and cloud radar. This method is independent of the radar calibration and the cloud-droplet size distribution provided that the sixth moment of the size distribution can be related to the square of the third moment. We have calculated these moments with a wide variety of in situ measurements and show that this is a reasonable assumption. Examples of droplet distributions that meet this requirement are the lognormal and gamma distributions.
Received 13 October 1997; accepted 8 May 1998; .
Citation: (1998), On cloud radar and microwave radiometer measurements of stratus cloud liquid water profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 103(D18), 23,195–23,197.
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