Kox, Stephan and Mannstein, Hermann and Ewald, Florian and Mayer, Bernhard (2010) COCS - Cirrus Optical properties derived from CALIOP and SEVIRI during day and night time. EUMETSAT Conference Proceedings. EUMETSAT.
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Abstract
Significant progress in cirrus cloud observation has been achieved with spaceborne active remote sensing techniques, e.g. the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard the polar-orbiting Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite (CALIPSO). With its high vertical and horizontal resolution CALIOP provides high detailed profiles of optical properties especially of cirrus clouds. But to deliver information on the lifecycle of cirrus clouds high temporal resolution is needed. These observations are performed by the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) aboard MSG every 5-15 minutes providing high detailed information (e.g. brightness temperatures of seven infrared channels) making a day and night time observation of clouds possible. In the following, the COCS algorithm (Cirrus Optical properties derived from CALIOP and SEVIRI) combining the advantages of both satellite instruments, some preliminary results, intercomparisons and examples of its application are presented. COCS provides the cloud optical thickness (COT) and the cloud top altitude (CTA) of cirrus clouds.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/67409/ | |||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Editorship of Proceedings | |||||||||||||||
Title: | COCS - Cirrus Optical properties derived from CALIOP and SEVIRI during day and night time | |||||||||||||||
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Date: | 29 October 2010 | |||||||||||||||
Open Access: | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | |||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | |||||||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | EUMETSAT | |||||||||||||||
Series Name: | EUMETSAT Conference Proceedings | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Keywords: | cocs, cirrus clouds, caliop, calipso, seviri, msg | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | L VU - Air Traffic and Environment (old) | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | L VU - Air Traffic and Environment | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - Air Traffic and Weather (old) | |||||||||||||||
Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | |||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics > Atmospheric Remote Sensing | |||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Kox, Stephan | |||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 13 Dec 2010 12:44 | |||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2019 19:30 |
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