https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611901006
The Expected Impact of Multiple Scattering on ATLID Signals
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, The Netherlands.
Email: donovan@knmi.nl
Published online: 7 June 2016
ATLID stands for “ATmospheric LIDar” and is the lidar to be flown on the Earth Clouds and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) platform in 2018. ATLID is a High-Spectral Resolution (HSRL) system operating at 355nm with a narrower field-of-view and lower orbit than the CALIPSO lidar. In spite of the smaller footprint multiple-scattering (MS) will have an important impact on ATLID cloud signals and, in some aspects, the accurate treatment of MS will be more important for ATLID than CALIPSO. On the other hand, the relationship between integrated backscatter and integrated MS induced depolarization in water clouds will be similar between ATLID and CALIPSO indicating that a CALIPSO-like strategy for cloud-phase identification can be successfully applied to ATLID.
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