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TI: Combined Lidar-Radar Measurements of Tropical Cirrus Anvils During the CRYSTAL-FACE Field Campaign
AU: * McGill, M
EM: matthew.j.mcgill@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 912, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hlavka, D
EM: sgdlh@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 912, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hart, W
EM: billhart@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 912, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Heymsfield, G
EM: gerald.heymsfield@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 912, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Li, L
EM: lihua@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 912, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: During the CRYSTAL-FACE field experiment the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) and the new Cloud Radar System (CRS) were flown together on the NASA ER-2 aircraft, providing the first high-altitude collocated measurements from lidar and cloud profiling radar. The lidar and radar provide complementary measurements with varying degrees of vertical measurement overlap within cloud layers and permit near-complete vertical coverage through the atmosphere. In this presentation a description of the combined airborne lidar-radar measurements will be given, followed by a comparison of instrument sensitivity. Focus will be on cirrus anvils observed during several days of the CRYSTAL-FACE experiment. Data from July 23, 28, and 29 will be used to show evolution of the temporal and structural features of the cirrus anvils using the full profiling capability permitted with the combined lidar-radar measurements. On these particular days, flight tracks designed specifically to capture evolving cirrus anvils allow an unprecedented view of the cirrus anvil life cycle.
UR: http://cpl.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 3314 Convective processes
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 3374 Tropical meteorology
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting