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