MISC

2006年

Cloud microphysical properties retrieved from MODIS suh-sampling radiance dataset over the extended GAME region

REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND CLOUDS
  • Takashi Y. Nakajima
  • ,
  • Kentaroh Suzuki
  • ,
  • Teruyuki Nakajima

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1117/12.692683
出版者・発行元
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

The cloud microphysical properties retrieved from MODIS sub-sampling radiance dataset (MOD02SSH) over the extended GAME region are shown in this paper. The spatial distributions and temporal variations of the cloud optical thickness (T-c) and effective particle radius (r(e)), are important observation targets to understand the role of clouds in the radiation budget estimations, especially in the cloud-aerosol interaction studies, because they will have information of cloud growth process. Thus, the wide-area and relatively high-temporal observations of the cloud properties are necessary. The most passed researches that retrieved near-global distributions of the cloud properties, used the reduced data volume satellite radiance subset, such as the globally map-projected radiances dataset at the discretized degrees in latitude and longitude (e.g. 0.5 degrees) or narrow-swath (around nadir) radiance subset. In fact, these subsets reduced the computing time but unexpectedly reduced the observation samplings. In this study, we used MODIS 5-km subsampling radiance subsets (MOD02SSH) for the retrievals. The MOD02SSH conserves scene texture with moderately reduced data volume of 1/25 from original MODIS scene, so that they will be suitable for the more precise estimations of tau(c) and r(e) over synoptic to global scale.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.692683
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000244436900010&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1117/12.692683
  • ISSN : 0277-786X
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000244436900010

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