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CLAIM 3D and Beyond: Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Measurements from Aircraft, Ground and Space

CLAIM 3D and Beyond: Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Measurements from Aircraft, Ground and Space. Science Measurements: Strategy:. - Cloud side – Vertical Profiles Reff, phase, temperature - Cloud Rainbow Measurements Accurate Water Droplet Reff and Veff

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CLAIM 3D and Beyond: Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Measurements from Aircraft, Ground and Space

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  1. CLAIM 3D and Beyond:Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Measurements from Aircraft, Ground and Space • Science • Measurements: • Strategy: • - Cloud side – Vertical Profiles • Reff, phase, temperature • - Cloud Rainbow Measurements • Accurate Water Droplet Reff and Veff • - Aerosol Imaging Polarimeter • Measurement of aerosol optical properties • - Aircraft-Ground Based Instruments • NIR cloud scanner (1.55, 1.64, 2.1, 2.25um) • Thermal Camera (8, 10, 11um) • Rainbow camera (Multi-Angle Imaging Polarimeter) • - Satellite • CLAIM-3D concept • Participation in Mission-X (or similar…) J. Vanderlei Martins, Alexander Marshak, Lorraine Remer JCET/UMBC (1), NASA/GSFC (2) GSFC Aerosol Update - Feb 22nd, 2007

  2. Ice Water CLAIM Experiment NE Brazil Aug 05

  3. 2.1mm 0.67mm ice Aerosol Impact in Microphysics? mixed phase Water-ice processes water Collision-Coalescence

  4. Moving from Literature to our own publications CLAIM-3D papers: Accepted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions: Remote sensing the vertical profile of cloud droplet effective radius, thermodynamic phase, and temperature. J. Vanderlei Martins, A. Marshak, L. A. Remer, D. Rosenfeld, Y. J. Kaufman, R. Fernandez-Borda, I. Koren, V. Zubko, P. Artaxo In Preparation: Accurate Measurements of Water Cloud Droplet Size Distributions Using the Cloud Rainbow. J. Vanderlei Martins, et al.

  5. 14 Tobias Ziner, Marshak, et al. More realistic simulations… Reff (mm) 0 A simulated x-z slice of Reff 30 r 2.1mm km r 0.87mm 0 30 km 0.87 vs 2.1 m radiances for dif. Reff Cloud top-side separation

  6. Rainbow and Cloud Side Remote Sensing of Cloud Microphysics J.Vanderlei Martins, A. Marshak ROSES 06 - Proposal to Radiation Science Program Fly the cloud scanner and rainbow camera in the WB-57 aircraft Using the ACAM design for the Wing Hatch (S. Janz and P. Newman)

  7. Cloud Scanner Setup for WB57 Rainbow polarimeter 1’-1” 1’-5” Thermal Camera NIR Camera

  8. F-M. Breon, P. Goloub, 1998. Polder still Holds the Record of quantitative cloudbow measurements… French POLDER

  9. Picture from Rainbow Camera Prototype in the Clean Room

  10. Other Aerosol/Cloud Measurement Fronts: • Aerosol Absorption Measurements (200-2500nm) • Bodele, China, UAE, Mexico, … • Instrumentation: • UMBC/GSFC Patent pending on: • NSF proposal to convert this concept to an aircraft instrument for aerosols and ice cloud particles • “Portable Instrument and Method for X-ray Diffraction, Fluorescence, and Crystal Texture"

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