Towards a Mass-Consistent Methodology for Realistic Melting Hydrometeor Retrieval
| Autor: | William S. Olson, Robert S. Schrom, Ian S. Adams, Adrian M. Loftus, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Benjamin T. Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Scattering Stochastic process Solid modeling Discrete dipole approximation Space (mathematics) 01 natural sciences Computational physics Compensation (engineering) 010309 optics Consistency (statistics) 0103 physical sciences Precipitation 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | IGARSS |
| Popis: | To address the acute challenge posed by the melting layer to accurate surface precipitation retrievals from space, we ensure the compositional consistency in ice, liquid, and total masses of synthetic melting hydrometeors with a method of stochastic compensation. The method is applied to simulated melting hydrometeors prior to calculating their scattering properties using the discrete dipole approximation (DDA). We investigate the impact of this stochastic compensation to calculated scattering properties by contrasting it with a naive approach and report our findings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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