TY - GEN
T1 - Envisat - Taking the measure of North Atlantic Storms
AU - Quartly, Graham D.
AU - Poulsen, Caroline A.
AU - Guymer, Trevor H.
PY - 2007/7/1
Y1 - 2007/7/1
N2 - Envisat carries a number of sensors able to provide quantitative information on raining clouds: AATSR delivers information on cloud microphysics (particle size, temperature etc.), MWR-2 gives columnar totals for liquid and vapour forms of water, and RA-2 yields rain rate and wind speed. This paper examines the complementarity of these sensors, with a focussed study on significant rain events in the N. Atlantic, covering both coherent large storms and fronts with smaller scale structure. The difference in liquid water estimates from the infra-red and passive systems appears to be related to the temperature and sizes of drops being detected.
AB - Envisat carries a number of sensors able to provide quantitative information on raining clouds: AATSR delivers information on cloud microphysics (particle size, temperature etc.), MWR-2 gives columnar totals for liquid and vapour forms of water, and RA-2 yields rain rate and wind speed. This paper examines the complementarity of these sensors, with a focussed study on significant rain events in the N. Atlantic, covering both coherent large storms and fronts with smaller scale structure. The difference in liquid water estimates from the infra-red and passive systems appears to be related to the temperature and sizes of drops being detected.
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M3 - Conference Paper
AN - SCOPUS:36448973159
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of the Envisat Symposium 2007
PB - European Space Agency
CY - The Netherlands
ER -