Statistical retrieval of thin liquid cloud microphysical properties using ground-based infrared and microwave observations

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*Title:*	Main Title: Statistical retrieval of thin liquid cloud microphysical properties using ground-based infrared and microwave observations
*Description:*	Abstract: In this article, liquid water cloud microphysical properties are retrieved by a combination of microwave and infrared ground-based observations. Clouds containing liquid water are frequently occurring in most climate regimes and play a significant role in terms of interaction with radiation. Small perturbations in the amount of liquid water contained in the cloud can cause large variations in the radiative fluxes. This effect is enhanced for thin clouds (liquid water path, LWP <100 g/m 2 ), which makes accurate retrieval information of the cloud properties crucial. Due to large relative errors in retrieving low LWP values from observations in the microwave domain and a high sensitivity for infrared methods when the LWP is low, a synergistic retrieval based on a neural network approach is built to estimate both LWP and cloud effective radius ( r eff ). These statistical retrievals can be applied without high computational demand but imply constraints like prior information on cloud phase and cloud layering. The neural network retrievals are able to retrieve LWP and r eff for thin clouds with a mean relative error of 9% and 17%, respectively. This is demonstrated using synthetic observations of a microwave radiometer (MWR) and a spectrally highly resolved infrared interferometer. The accuracy and robustness of the synergistic retrievals is confirmed by a low bias in a radiative closure study for the downwelling shortwave flux, even for marginally invalid scenes. Also, broadband infrared radiance observations, in combination with the MWR, have the potential to retrieve LWP with a higher accuracy than a MWR-only retrieval.
*Identifier:*	10.1002/2016JD025667 (DOI)

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*Creators:*	Tobias Marke (Author), Kerstin Ebell (Author), Ulrich Löhnert (Author), David Turner (Author)
*Publisher:*	Wiley
*Publication Year:*	2016

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*TR32 Topic:*	Atmosphere
*Related Subproject:*	D2
*Subjects:*	Keywords: Microwave Radiometer, Liquid Water, Atmospheric Measurement
*Geogr. Information Topic:*	Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere

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*Filename:*	Marke_et_al_2016_JGA.pdf
*Data Type:*	Text - Article
*File Size:*	2.7 MB
*Dates:*	Accepted: 17.11.2016 Submitted: 18.07.2016 Available: 20.12.2016
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*Data Format:*	PDF
*Language:*	English
*Status:*	Completed

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*Publication Status:*	Published
*Review Status:*	Peer reviewed
*Publication Type:*	Article
*Article Type:*	Journal
*Source:*	Journal of Geophysical Reserach: Atmospheres
*Source Website:*	http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/jgr/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-8996
*Issue:*	24
*Volume:*	121
*Number of Pages:*	1016 (14558 - 15573)

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*Metadata Creator:*	Tobias Marke
*Metadata Created:*	30.11.2016
*Metadata Last Updated:*	30.11.2016
*Subproject:*	D2
*Funding Phase:*	3
*Metadata Language:*	English
*Metadata Version:*	V50

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