11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation and the 11th Conference on Cloud Physics

Joint Session 5: Remote Sensing of Clouds III (Joint between 11th Cloud Physics and 11th Atmospheric Radiation)

Friday, 7 June 2002: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Organizer:  Robert Pincus, NOAA/ETL
Papers:
  3:30 PM
Cloud Top Pressure Retrieval based on O2-O2 absorption at 477 nm
Johan F. De Haan, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and J. R. Acarreta and P. Stammes

  3:45 PM
Photon pathlength distributions derived from a high resolution spectrometer (AWS)
Qilong Min, ASRC, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY; and L. Harrison, P. Kiedron, J. Berndt, and E. Joseph

  4:00 PM
Active Probing of Cloud Thickness, Optical Depth and Absorption Properties using Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar
Steven P. Love, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. B. Davis, C. A. Rhode, L. Teller, and C. Ho

  4:15 PM
Climatology of blowing snow on the Antarctic plateau
Ashwin Mahesh, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Ctr., Greenbelt, MD; and J. Campbell, V. P. Walden, and J. D. Spinhirne

  4:30 PM
Improving Precipitation Retrieval with Next Generation GPM Radar and Radiometer Instruments
K.-S. Kuo, Caelum Research Corp., Rockville, MD; and E. A. Smith, Z. S. Haddad, E. Im, and A. Mugnai

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  4:45 PM
Determination of thundercloud ice characteristics from satellite observations of lightning
John Latham, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Christian, A. M. Blyth, and A. M. Gadian