scholarly journals Final Report for "Improved Representations of Cloud Microphysics for Model and Remote Sensing Evaluation using Data Collected during ISDAC, TWP-ICE and RACORO

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg M. McFarquhar
2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Ludmila I. Samoilenko ◽  
Sergey A. Baulin ◽  
Tatyana V. Ilyenko ◽  
Margarita A. Kirnosova ◽  
Ludmila N. Kolos ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Junzhe Zhang ◽  
Wei Guo ◽  
Bo Zhou ◽  
Gregory S. Okin

With rapid innovations in drone, camera, and 3D photogrammetry, drone-based remote sensing can accurately and efficiently provide ultra-high resolution imagery and digital surface model (DSM) at a landscape scale. Several studies have been conducted using drone-based remote sensing to quantitatively assess the impacts of wind erosion on the vegetation communities and landforms in drylands. In this study, first, five difficulties in conducting wind erosion research through data collection from fieldwork are summarized: insufficient samples, spatial displacement with auxiliary datasets, missing volumetric information, a unidirectional view, and spatially inexplicit input. Then, five possible applications—to provide a reliable and valid sample set, to mitigate the spatial offset, to monitor soil elevation change, to evaluate the directional property of land cover, and to make spatially explicit input for ecological models—of drone-based remote sensing products are suggested. To sum up, drone-based remote sensing has become a useful method to research wind erosion in drylands, and can solve the issues caused by using data collected from fieldwork. For wind erosion research in drylands, we suggest that a drone-based remote sensing product should be used as a complement to field measurements.


2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 2403-2418 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Painemal ◽  
J.‐Y. Christine Chiu ◽  
Patrick Minnis ◽  
Christopher Yost ◽  
Xiaoli Zhou ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Aleksandr Kitov ◽  
Ivan Denisenko ◽  
Oxana Lunina ◽  
Andrey Gladkov ◽  
Viktor Plyusnin ◽  
...  

The Munku-Sardyk (Eastern Sayan) glacier has been described and studied for more than 100 years. The first largest glacier of Peretolchina was studied in the most detailed detail. Radde's second-largest glacier is much weaker. Monitoring of surface characteristics of the Radde glacier by ground methods and using data of remote sensing of the Earth (RSE) has been carried out since 2006. In 2018, georadar profiling of this glacier was performed for the first time. As a result, it was possible not only to clarify its surface characteristics, but also to assess the power of the ice and the internal structure (a layer of firn, ice, bed). According to the RSE, its geometric changes have been revealed. Over 120 years, the open part of the Radde Glacier has shrunk from 0.4 to 0.09 km2, and the length from 1 to 0.4 km. It also revealed the division of the glacier into two parts and the intensive reservation of the bottom of the main part of the tongue by surface moraines and the formation of a glacial lake on the glacier itself in the lower part of the second half. Radar research using the Oko-2 georadar, allowed to determine the volume of ice of this glacier 0.003 km3 and the greatest thickness of the main ice body 42 m. The main glacier flows down from the Eskadriliy top, 3168 m, to the north, flows on the cross-bar and from it turns to the northeast, and at the bottom of the kar will continue to flow north again.


Sensors ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuhong Li ◽  
Xiao Cheng ◽  
Rongjin Yang ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Yubao Qiu ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 9485-9501 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. V. Martins ◽  
A. Marshak ◽  
L. A. Remer ◽  
D. Rosenfeld ◽  
Y. J. Kaufman ◽  
...  

Abstract. Cloud-aerosol interaction is a key issue in the climate system, affecting the water cycle, the weather, and the total energy balance including the spatial and temporal distribution of latent heat release. Information on the vertical distribution of cloud droplet microphysics and thermodynamic phase as a function of temperature or height, can be correlated with details of the aerosol field to provide insight on how these particles are affecting cloud properties and their consequences to cloud lifetime, precipitation, water cycle, and general energy balance. Unfortunately, today's experimental methods still lack the observational tools that can characterize the true evolution of the cloud microphysical, spatial and temporal structure in the cloud droplet scale, and then link these characteristics to environmental factors and properties of the cloud condensation nuclei. Here we propose and demonstrate a new experimental approach (the cloud scanner instrument) that provides the microphysical information missed in current experiments and remote sensing options. Cloud scanner measurements can be performed from aircraft, ground, or satellite by scanning the side of the clouds from the base to the top, providing us with the unique opportunity of obtaining snapshots of the cloud droplet microphysical and thermodynamic states as a function of height and brightness temperature in clouds at several development stages. The brightness temperature profile of the cloud side can be directly associated with the thermodynamic phase of the droplets to provide information on the glaciation temperature as a function of different ambient conditions, aerosol concentration, and type. An aircraft prototype of the cloud scanner was built and flew in a field campaign in Brazil. The CLAIM-3D (3-Dimensional Cloud Aerosol Interaction Mission) satellite concept proposed here combines several techniques to simultaneously measure the vertical profile of cloud microphysics, thermodynamic phase, brightness temperature, and aerosol amount and type in the neighborhood of the clouds. The wide wavelength range, and the use of multi-angle polarization measurements proposed for this mission allow us to estimate the availability and characteristics of aerosol particles acting as cloud condensation nuclei, and their effects on the cloud microphysical structure. These results can provide unprecedented details on the response of cloud droplet microphysics to natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the size scale where the interaction really happens.


FLORESTA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 697
Author(s):  
Henrique Luis Godinho Cassol ◽  
Dejanira Luderitz Saldanha ◽  
Tatiana Mora Kuplich

O trabalho teve como objetivo inventariar o carbono de um fragmento de Floresta Ombrófila Mista utilizando dados provenientes de sensores de média resolução espacial. Uma cena dos sensores ASTER, LISS e TM foi empregada na obtenção dos dados radiométricos (espectrais), e os dados de biomassa e carbono (biofísicos) foram oriundos de parcelas de inventário florestal contínuo em São João do Triunfo, PR. A metodologia consistiu em estabelecer a relação empírica entre esses conjuntos de dados por meio de equações lineares de regressão. À exceção do sensor TM, que apresentou resultado insatisfatório, o uso dos dados oriundos dos sensores LISS e ASTER foi adequado para se inventariar o carbono florestal por detecção remota, com erros inferiores aos estabelecidos nas campanhas de inventários tradicionais (α < 0,05).Palavras-chave: Estoque de carbono; sensoriamento remoto; ASTER; TM; LISS. AbstractCarbon inventory in a fragment of Mixed Ombrophylous Forest by remote sensing. The research aims to make inventory of carbon of a fragment of Araucaria Forest using data from medium spatial resolution sensors. Satellite data from ASTER, TM and LISS were used to obtain the radiometric data. The above ground biomass and carbon data (biophysical data) were derived from the continuous forest inventory located in São João do Triunfo, PR. The methodology consisted of establishing the empirical relationship between spectral and biophysical data sets using linear regression. Except for the TM data, which showed unsatisfactory results, the use of ASTER and LISS satellite data was suited to forest carbon inventory by remote sensing, with errors lower than those set in traditional inventory campaigns (α < 0,05).Keywords: Carbon stock; remote sensing; ASTER; TM; LISS.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 2212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Salameh ◽  
Frédéric Frappart ◽  
Rafael Almar ◽  
Paulo Baptista ◽  
Georg Heygster ◽  
...  

With high anthropogenic pressure and the effects of climate change (e.g., sea level rise) on coastal regions, there is a greater need for accurate and up-to-date information about the topography of these systems. Reliable topography and bathymetry information are fundamental parameters for modelling the morpho-hydrodynamics of coastal areas, for flood forecasting, and for coastal management. Traditional methods such as ground, ship-borne, and airborne surveys suffer from limited spatial coverage and temporal sampling due to logistical constraints and high costs which limit their ability to provide the needed information. The recent advancements of spaceborne remote sensing techniques, along with their ability to acquire data over large spatial areas and to provide high frequency temporal monitoring, has made them very attractive for topography and bathymetry mapping. In this review, we present an overview of the current state of spaceborne-based remote sensing techniques used to estimate the topography and bathymetry of beaches, intertidal, and nearshore areas. We also provide some insights about the potential of these techniques when using data provided by new and future satellite missions.


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