High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of polar stratospheric clouds and subvisible cirrus

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Read Full Article (file size: 1033456 bytes) Cited by JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, D24S31, doi:10.1029/2007JD008788, 2007 High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of polar stratospheric clouds and subvisible cirrus Steven Massie National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA John Gille National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Rashid Khosravi National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Hyunah Lee National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Douglas Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Gene Francis National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Bruno Nardi National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Thomas Eden National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Cheryl Craig National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Chris Halvorson National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Michael Coffey National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Daniel Packman National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Charles Cavanaugh National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA James Craft Center for Limb Atmospheric Sounding, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA Vincil Dean Center for Limb Atmospheric Sounding, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA David Ellis Center for Limb Atmospheric Sounding, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA John Barnett Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Christopher Hepplewhite Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Alyn Lambert Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Gloria Manney Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Anthony Strawa NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA Marion Legg Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, California, USA Abstract The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) cloud detection and cloud top determination algorithm is described and applied to 2005–2007 HIRDLS radiance profiles. Statistical averages of HIRDLS and correlative cloud data are highly correlated. The 1998–2005 Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) and HIRDLS time averaged cloud top pressures have a correlation coefficient of 0.87 and 0.93 in the tropics and midlatitudes, respectively. Time series of the temperature T < 195 K hemispherical area, on the 450 K potential temperature surface, and the total number of polar stratospheric clouds observed by the HIRDLS experiment in January and February 2005 have a correlation coefficient of 0.92. HALOE and HIRDLS normalized distributions of cloud counts, expressed as a function of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), have a correlation coefficient of 0.99. Tropical averages of 1998–2005 HALOE and HIRDLS cloud occurrence frequencies at 82 and 100 hPa are within 25% of each other, and the morphology of latitude-longitude contour maps of cloud frequency are similar. Colocated Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE III) and HIRDLS cloud top pressure values in 2005 have a correlation coefficient of 0.85 when the distance between observations is less than 100 km and the time difference is less than 6 h. Correlations between colocated SAGE III and HIRDLS cloud top pressures improve as space and time differences decrease. Received 12 April 2007; accepted 12 September 2007; published 15 December 2007. Keywords: satellite; clouds; validation. Index Terms: 0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801, 4906); 0345 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Pollution: urban and regional (0305, 0478, 4251); 0320 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Cloud physics and chemistry. Read Full Article (file size: 1033456 bytes) Cited by Citation: Massie, S., et al. (2007), High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of polar stratospheric clouds and subvisible cirrus, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S31, doi:10.1029/2007JD008788. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.

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