Et6 satellite cal/val stuff

Picture of ron brown RonBrown4.jpg

*Cloud macro and microphysical properties using ETL ship data (with P. Minnis, NASA)

Cloud top and base heights

Liquid water content, droplet size

Ice water content, ice particle size

albedo, transmission, optical thickness

Existence of multiple layers

*Retrieval of surface fluxes (Curry and Clayson, CU)

Sensible, latent heat and stress - satellite yields spatial maps

Retrieval algorithm based on combing different satellites

Algorithm tuned to ETL ship data.

See figures in Clayson_96JC02022.pdf or Curry_96.pdf

*SST work (see Gary Wick's writeup)

see images scan_IR_boom1_label2.jpg

*TRMM/GPM

Several TRMM validation studies on Ron Brown -	Planning for GPM

Ron Brown Scanning C-band Doppler radar, Cloud radars, microwave radiometers, etc.