HR: 1340h
AN: A13C-1357    [Abstracts]
TI: Measured and modeled solar spectral irradiance and absorption for TC4 ice and water cloud scenes
AU: Wind, G
EM: wind@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771,
AU: Wind, G
EM: wind@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706,
AU: * Schmidt, S
EM: sebastian.schmidt@lasp.colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, LASP Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392,
AU: Pilewskie, P
EM: peter.pilewskie@lasp.colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, LASP Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392,
AU: King, M
EM: michael.d.king@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771,
AU: Bansemer, A
EM: bansemer@ucar.edu
AF: NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305,
AU: Kindel, B
EM: kindel@ucar.edu
AF: University of Colorado, LASP Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392,
AU: Kindel, B
EM: kindel@ucar.edu
AF: NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305,
AU: McBride, P
EM: Patrick.Mcbride@colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, LASP Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392,
AB: The TC4 experiment provided extensive coordinated above- and below-cloud measurements of solar spectral irradiance (Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer) onboard the NASA ER-2 and DC-8 aircraft, which also carried various active and passive cloud remote sensing as well as in-situ cloud instrumentation. We present measured spectral irradiance and absorption along coordinated flight legs for water and ice clouds. We derive effective radius from reflected and absorbed irradiance along those legs and relate those to CAPS (Cloud Aerosol and Precipitation Spectrometer) in-situ measurements onboard the DC-8 and to retrievals from MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator) and MASTER (MODIS and ASTER Airborne Simulator) onboard the ER-2.
DE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry
DE: 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction
DE: 0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting