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Lidar and Radar as Partners in Cloud Sensing

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Abstract

Clouds are important to radiative transfer and climate, so information on their structure and microphysics is in great demand. The improving technology of lidars and radars can meet many of these important observational needs. Lidar and radar can individually provide valuable but limited information on cloud properties. An amalgam of measurements by lidar, radar, spectrometer, infrared radiometer, microwave radiometer, and standard meteorological measurements yields a wealth of geometrical, microphysical, and radiative information unattainable by a single instrument (Sassen 1995; Intrieri et al. 1995). In this paper we describe how simultaneous measurements by lidar and radar give complementary information on the bulk structure of clouds and synergistic information on cloud microphysical properties.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

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