J11 Lidar Observations of Ice and Liquid Water Cloud Properties

Wednesday, 15 January 2025: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
336 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics )
Submitters:
Rory A. Barton-Grimley, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; John E. Yorks, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Jacqueline M. Nugent, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA
Cochairs:
John E. Yorks, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Akarshna Krishnarjun Iyer

Cloud optical and microphysical properties are essential for understanding cloud radiative effects, cloud-aerosol interactions, and dynamical processes that are key to understanding cloud feedbacks in a changing climate. Spaceborne and sub-orbital lidar instruments have been utilized for studying cloud properties for decades, especially optically thin ice clouds below the detection limits of cloud radars and passive cloud sensors. Analysis of new lidar cloud observations, specifically when combined with in situ or other remote sensing observations, are critical to understanding the relationships between the structure and microphysical properties of these clouds, cloud processes that impact radiative properties, and thermodynamic drivers of cloud evolution. Case studies and contributions from spaceborne lidar instruments (CALIPSO, CATS, ICESat-2, and EarthCARE) and recent field campaigns (IMPACTS, OLYMPEX, ACTIVATE, and CPEX-CV) are encouraged.

Papers:
1:45 PM
J11.1
Improving Lake-Effect Mixed Phase Cloud Detection over the Great Lakes
Leila Jean Gabrys, CIMSS, Madison, WI

2:00 PM
J11.2
Enabling High-Resolution Measurements at Cloud Boundaries Using Photon Counting
Grant Kirchhoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and M. Hayman, W. J. Marais, J. Thayer, R. A. Barton-Grimley, and B. Garby

Handout (2.3 MB)

2:15 PM
J11.3
Cloud top phase characteristics and 3-D structure of a shallow generating cell driven snowstorm: results from IMPACTS
Troy Justin Zaremba, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. M. Rauber, L. McMurdie, J. E. Yorks, and G. M. McFarquhar

2:30 PM
J11.4
Estimation of the Uncertainty in Daytime Cirrus Cloud Radiative Forcing and Heating Rates Due to Ice Crystal Optics
Erica Dolinar, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Campbell, J. W. Marquis, J. R. Lewis Jr., S. Lolli, P. Yang, and E. J. Welton

2:45 PM
J11.5
Cloud Thermodynamic Phase Distributions Observed by Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar
Ewan Crosbie, NASA, Hampton, VA; and J. W. Hair, A. R. Nehrir, R. A. Ferrare, C. Hostetler, T. Shingler, R. A. Barton-Grimley, B. Collister, D. Harper, M. Fenn, and J. Collins

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