Cirrus clouds in the extratropical tropopause and lowermost stratosphere region / Irene Bartolomé García. Wuppertal, 23.09.2021
Content
Introduction
Scientific and methodical background
Earth's atmosphere: upper troposphere-lowermost stratosphere (UTLS)
Cirrus clouds: formation process
Radiative transfer theory
Limb sounding technique
Instrument and datasets
WISE campaign
Gimballed Limb Observer for Radiance Imaging of the Atmosphere (GLORIA)
Data processing
Meteorological dataset
Cloud detection
Cloud index
Derived detection thresholds for CI and extinction
Differentiation between clouds and aerosol
Macro-physical properties
Definition of the macro-physical characteristics
Analysis of cloud top height and cloud bottom height
Cloud top position with respect to the tropopause
Cloud tops above the tropopause: meteorological situation
Chapter conclusions
Micro-physical properties
Definition of micro-physical properties
Estimation of micro-physical properties
Ice water content, ice water path and median radius
Chapter conclusions
CLaMS-Ice: case studies
Summary
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
List of symbols
Bibliography
Comparison GLORIA vs ERA5
Cross-sections