Clouds and precipitation / Remote sensing
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
- Improving our understanding of global precipitation processes; development of the CloudSat precipitation retrieval (2C-PRECIP-COLUMN)
- Cloud and precipitation remote sensing; millimeter wavelength radar and lidar systems (the spaceborne CloudSat and CALIPSO platforms)
- Using multispectral and data fusion approaches to improve our ability to detect and quantify cloud height with passive sensors (GOES ABI, VIIRS); improving detection of multiple layered cloud systems for aviation applications
- Evaluation and improvement of numerical forecast model representations of clouds and precipitation; development of a radar forward model software package to simulate radar reflectivity profiles at microwave frequencies