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Spaceborne millimeter wavelength cloud radar reflectivity factor simulation

Authors
Liu Huifa, Yan Wei, Han Ding, Wang Rui
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Available Online August 2013.
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10.2991/rsete.2013.157How to use a DOI?
Keywords
MMW cloud radar; simulation; Mie scattering
Abstract

The Simulation of millimeter wavelength cloud radar reflectivity factor, which aimed to verify the inversion algorithm of cloud microphysical parameters, is an important issue in millimeter wavelength cloud radar development and the validation of its performance. By using the auxiliary data of temperature, humidity and pressure published by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, the simulation calculates the droplet size distribution parameters of each bin along the CloudSat satellite’s sounding profiles, which may follow lognormal distribution or power-law distribution. Then every single particle’s backward scattering efficiency and attenuation efficiency are computed in Mie scattering model, the number concentrations and sizes of these particles are finite, and then the reflectivity and attenuation coefficient of each bin get calculated. After the attenuation correction, the observed and simulated radar reflectivity are compared. The consequence shows that the outcome of simulation is in good agreement with actual sounding data.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
August 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-77-2
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1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/rsete.2013.157How to use a DOI?
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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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