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CloudSat radar instrument design and development status

IGARSS 2001. Scanning the Present and Resolving the Future. Proceedings. IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37217), 2002
The Cloud Profiling Radar is the key science instrument for the CloudSat Mission to acquire a global data set of vertical atmospheric cloud structure and its variability. CPR is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar that measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar.
E. Im, S.L. Durden, F.K. Li, null Chialin Wu, Z.S. Haddad   +4 more
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Constructing cloud structure using CloudSat/AQUAdata

IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2018
Radar actively detects cloud internal physical structure while a radiometer passively measures the integral radiation characteristics of cloud. This study used cloud products from CloudSat (active detection) and AQUA (passive detection) to study the relationships between the variations of radiation characteristics and the physical structure ...
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Observation‐Based Radiative Kernels From CloudSat/CALIPSO

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019
AbstractRadiative kernels describe the differential response of radiative fluxes to small perturbations in state variables and are widely used to quantify radiative feedbacks on the climate system. Radiative kernels have traditionally been generated using simulated data from a global climate model, typically sourced from the model's base climate ...
Ryan J. Kramer, Alexander V. Matus, Brian J. Soden, Tristan S. L'Ecuyer   +3 more
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Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) for the CloudSat Mission

IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Taking the Pulse of the Planet: The Role of Remote Sensing in Managing the Environment. Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37120), 2002
The CloudSat Mission is a new satellite mission currently being developed by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to acquire a global data set of vertical cloud structure and its variability. Such data set will provide crucial input to the studies of radiation budget and water distribution in the atmosphere, and to the numerical weather prediction ...
F.K. Li, E. Im, S.L. Durden, R. Girard, G. Sadowy, C. Wu   +5 more
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CloudSat W-Band Radar Measurements of Surface Backscatter

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2011
The authors examine the characteristics of the W-band surface backscatter cross section using data from the 94-GHz cloud profiling radar on the CloudSat mission. These data from CloudSat represent the first global measurements of surface properties at 94 GHz.
S. L. Durden, S. Tanelli, G. Dobrowalski
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Experimental 1D + 4D‐Var assimilation of CloudSat observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2011
AbstractObservations providing three‐dimensional information on clouds from space‐borne active instruments on board CloudSat and CALIPSO are already available and new satellites, such as EarthCARE, should appear in the near future. This opens new possibilities for exploring the usefulness of this kind of observation, not only for improving model ...
M. Janisková, P. Lopez, P. Bauer
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The Canadian CloudSat CALIPSO Validation Project: Evaluation of Sensitivity and Sub-Pixel Variability of CloudSat Data Products

2009
33rd Conference on Radar Meteorology, August 6-10, 2007, Cairns ...
Wolde, M., Hudak, D., Barker, H., Strawbridge, K., Kankiewicz, A., Strapp, W.   +5 more
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A formation flying strategy for CloudSat/Picasso-Cena

2001 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01TH8542), 2002
For CloudSat and Picasso/Cena to collect nearly simultaneous data over the same territory CloudSat's ground track must stay within /spl plusmn/1 km (in cross-track) of Picasso/Cena's. The Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) is responsible for CloudSat mission operations and its contractors must determine and execute orbit maneuvers ...
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Characterizing Global Precipitation Patterns Using Results from Cloudsat

2014
As one of the most obvious atmospheric components, clouds exert fundamental impacts on the global hydrologic cycle, condensing water vapor and forming precipitation when incorporated with aerosols *^. One of the most important final products-precipitation, however, has been poorly parameterized by the modeling community due to traditional instrumental ...
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CloudSat ACT-TWO, Design, Analysis and Results

2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), 2022
Heidi Hallowell, Ian Gravseth, Brian Pieper   +2 more
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