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UP: Umweltphysik

UP 12: Poster: Satelliten und Anwendungen

UP 12.6: Poster

Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 14:00–16:00, Schellingstr. 3

Upper Tropospheric Humidity and Ice from Meteorological Operational Sensors — •Stefan Bühler, Emmanuel Brocard, Nathalie Courcoux, Claudia Emde , Axel von Engeln, Arash Houshangpour, Thomas Kuhn, Mashrab Kuvatov, Oliver Lemke, Viju Oommen John, and Sreerekha T.R. — University of Bremen

The objective of the UTH-MOS project is to develop and interpret an upper tropospheric humidity climatology product from microwave data collected by the polar orbiting operational meteorological sensors AMSU-B and SSM-T2. This data record goes back to 1995 and will extend into the future for at least the next decade. For the correct interpretation of these data, the impact of cirrus clouds on the measurement in the microwave channels has to be well understood and taken into account in the retrieval. An auxiliary objective is to explore the potential of these data for deriving information on cloud ice particles. The research work in UTH-MOS is split between the modeling of the radiative transfer in the presence of cirrus clouds on one hand, and the actual data analysis and atmospheric research applications on the other hand. The poster gives an overview of UTH-MOS project activities and results.