Determining Cloud Thermodynamic Phase from the Polarized Micro Pulse Lidar
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Jasper R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Campbell, James R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lolli, Simone | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stewart, Sebastian A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tan, Ivy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Welton, Ellsworth J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-24T18:31:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-24T18:31:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-18 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A method to distinguish cloud thermodynamic phase from polarized Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) measurements is described. The method employs a simple enumerative approach to classify cloud layers as either liquid water, ice water, or mixed-phase clouds based on the linear volume depolarization ratio and cloud top temperatures derived from Goddard Earth Observing System, version 5 (GEOS-5) assimilated data. Two years of cloud retrievals from the Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) site in Greenbelt, MD are used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. The fraction of supercooled liquid water in the mixed-phase temperature regime (−37 °C–0 °C) calculated using MPLNET data is compared to similar calculations made using the spaceborne Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument on board the Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite, with reasonable consistency. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The NASA Micro Pulse Lidar Network is funded by the NASA Earth Observing System and the NASA Radiation Sciences Program. The GEOS-5 meteorological data were provided by the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at GSFC. CALIPSO data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center. | en |
| dc.description.uri | https://amt.copernicus.org/preprints/amt-2020-298/ | en |
| dc.format.extent | 24 pages | en |
| dc.genre | conference proceeding preprints | en |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2geks-utun | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lewis, J. R., Campbell, J. R., Lolli, S., Stewart, S. A., Tan, I., and Welton, E. J.: Determining Cloud Thermodynamic Phase from the Polarized Micro Pulse Lidar, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-298, in review, 2020. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-298 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19712 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Copernicus Publications | en |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
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| dc.title | Determining Cloud Thermodynamic Phase from the Polarized Micro Pulse Lidar | en |
| dc.type | Text | en |