Scientific background for CLOUDS: a cloud and radiation monitoring satellite

Bizzarro Bizzarri; Michel Desbois; Carsten Stanfuss; John E. Harries; J. E. Murray; Jaqueline E. Russell; Catherine Naud; Albin J. Gasiewski; Klaus Kuenzi; Georg Heyster; Jungang Miao; Alberto Mugnai; Gian-Paolo Gobbi; GianLuigi Liberti; Stefano Dietrich; Anthony Slingo; Alfonso Sutera; Isabella Bordi; Stefano Tibaldi; PierPaolo Alberoni; Rolando Rizzi

doi:10.1117/12.413878

31 January 2001 Scientific background for CLOUDS: a cloud and radiation monitoring satellite

Bizzarro Bizzarri, Michel Desbois, Carsten Stanfuss, John E. Harries, J. E. Murray, Jaqueline E. Russell, Catherine Naud, Albin J. Gasiewski, Klaus Kuenzi, Georg Heyster, Jungang Miao, Alberto Mugnai, Gian-Paolo Gobbi, GianLuigi Liberti, Stefano Dietrich, Anthony Slingo, Alfonso Sutera, Isabella Bordi, Stefano Tibaldi, PierPaolo Alberoni, Rolando Rizzi

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Proceedings Volume 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413878
Event: Europto Remote Sensing, 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

CLOUDS is a project co-funded by the EC under FP-4, conducted by 12 European partners, also cooperating with NOAA/ETL. It is the mission study of a monitoring satellite to perform measurements necessary to describe cloud-radiation interaction in operational models for climate and long-term weather prediction. Complementary to missions for process study, CLOUDS addresses the monitoring aspect. As such, it has to comply with requirements of sufficiently frequent observing cycle, and operational sustainability. This prevents using active systems and leads to consider passive radiometry only, however exploiting as much as possible of the em spectrum, with more polarizations and more viewing geometries. The paper reports on the effort to demonstrate that, by these means, the main ingredients of the cloud-radiation interaction mechanism may be observed with sufficient accuracy. The optimal channels are determined. Clouds, aerosol radiation and precipitation are observed under identical geometry with in a range of the em spectrum spanning from 340 nm to 4.3 cm, i.e. over five orders of magnitudes, for a true multi- spectral approach.

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Bizzarro Bizzarri, Michel Desbois, Carsten Stanfuss, John E. Harries, J. E. Murray, Jaqueline E. Russell, Catherine Naud, Albin J. Gasiewski, Klaus Kuenzi, Georg Heyster, Jungang Miao, Alberto Mugnai, Gian-Paolo Gobbi, GianLuigi Liberti, Stefano Dietrich, Anthony Slingo, Alfonso Sutera, Isabella Bordi, Stefano Tibaldi, PierPaolo Alberoni, and Rolando Rizzi "Scientific background for CLOUDS: a cloud and radiation monitoring satellite", Proc. SPIE 4168, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere V, (31 January 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.413878

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