A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

Measuring atmospheric composition change

P Laj, J Klausen, M Bilde, C Plass-Duelmer… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
Scientific findings from the last decades have clearly highlighted the need for a more
comprehensive approach to atmospheric change processes. In fact, observation of …

A network suitable microwave radiometer for operational monitoring of the cloudy atmosphere

T Rose, S Crewell, U Löhnert, C Simmer - Atmospheric research, 2005 - Elsevier
The implementation of an operational network of microwave radiometers is presently
hampered by the cost and complexity of the available instruments. For this reason, the …

A variational scheme for retrieving ice cloud properties from combined radar, lidar, and infrared radiometer

J Delanoë, RJ Hogan - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A variational method is described for retrieving profiles of visible extinction coefficient, ice
water content and effective radius in ice clouds using the combination of ground‐based or …

[HTML][HTML] The Barbados Cloud Observatory: Anchoring investigations of clouds and circulation on the edge of the ITCZ

B Stevens, D Farrell, L Hirsch, F Jansen… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Barbados Cloud Observatory: Anchoring Investigations of Clouds and Circulation on the
Edge of the ITCZ in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 97 Issue 5 (2016) …

[HTML][HTML] Information content and uncertainties in thermodynamic profiles and liquid cloud properties retrieved from the ground-based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance …

DD Turner, U Löhnert - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Information Content and Uncertainties in Thermodynamic Profiles and Liquid Cloud
Properties Retrieved from the Ground-Based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) …

Optimal estimation retrievals and their uncertainties: What every atmospheric scientist should know

M Maahn, DD Turner, U Löhnert… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Remote sensing instruments are heavily used to provide observations for both the
operational and research communities. These sensors do not provide direct observations of …

[HTML][HTML] Ground-based temperature and humidity profiling using spectral infrared and microwave observations. Part I: Simulated retrieval performance in clear-sky …

U Löhnert, DD Turner, S Crewell - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Löhnert, U., E. van Meijgaard, HK Baltink, S. Groß, and R. Boers, 2007: Accuracy
assessment of an integrated profiling technique for operationally deriving profiles of …

[PDF][PDF] Temperature and humidity profile retrievals from ground-based microwave radiometers during TUC

D Cimini, TJ Hewison, L Martin, J Güldner… - Meteorologische …, 2006 - researchgate.net
Thermodynamic atmospheric profiles have been retrieved from ground-based microwave
radiometers during the Temperature, hUmidity, and Cloud (TUC) profiling campaign. A …

Forecast indices from a ground-based microwave radiometer for operational meteorology

D Cimini, M Nelson, J Güldner… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
Today, commercial microwave radiometer profilers (MWRPs) are robust and unattended
instruments providing real-time, accurate atmospheric observations at~ 1 min temporal …