项目来源

德国科学基金(DFG)

项目主持人

Professorin Dr. Susanne Crewell; Professor Dr. Jürgen Fischer; Professor Dr. Andreas Macke

项目受资助机构

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立项年度

2010

立项时间

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项目编号

175331999

研究期限

未知 / 未知

项目级别

国家级

受资助金额

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学科

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学科代码

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基金类别

Sachbeihilfen

关键词

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参与者

Professorin Dr. Susanne Crewell;Professor Dr. Jürgen Fischer;Professor Dr. Andreas Macke;Professor Dr. Ulrich Löhnert

参与机构

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项目标书摘要：Cloud processes remain one of the largest challenges in atmospheric research partly due to a gap in statistically significant observations of cloud macro- and microphysical properties. The most detailed and continuous observations available today come from the combination of state-of-the-art ground-based sensors at a few “super sites” worldwide. The integrated profiling technique (IPT) developed by the proposers has been established to provide cloud liquid water (LWC) profiles with their error and the associated environmental conditions (temperature, humidity) from a combination of microwave radiometer, cloud radar and ceilometer. Here we propose to extend this method by incorporating satellite observations by Meteosat SEVIRI into the IPT optimal estimation framework for the additional retrieval of cloud microphysics (effective radius, optical thickness) and cloud radiation budget. In addition SEVIRI measurements will be exploited to provide auxiliary information on a) the history of the cloud observed at the super site (lifetime, microphysical development, environment) and b) the representativeness of the cloud for the cloud field around the site. The method will be developed on the basis of existing data sets from observation sites at Cabauw, Lindenberg and AMF/Murg Valley.