Radiative properties of mid-latitude frontal ice-clouds observed by the shortwave and longwave radiometer-sondes

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In the Japanese Cloud and Climate Study (JACCS) cirrus experiment, simultaneous measurements of cloud radiative and microphysical properties were conducted by using the combined-sonde (radiometer-sonde + hydrometeor-video-sonde (HYVIS)) observation system at the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), located at (36.05°N, 140.13°E) in Tsukuba, Japan, during early summer seasons from 1995 to 1999. We have analyzed the radiative properties of frontal ice-clouds observed by the shortwave and longwave radiometer-sondes (Asano et al. 2004). To interpret the observed radiative flux profiles, we have also performed radiative transfer calculations for horizontally homogeneous atmospheric models, where the single-scattering properties of ice-clouds were computed by anomalous diffraction theory for ice-crystals observed by HYVIS. On an average of the observed frontal ice-clouds, the shortwave reflectance, transmittance and absorptance were estimated to be 0.41 ± 0.03, 0.51 ± 0.06, and 0.08 ± 0.09, respectively, for the averaged ice-cloud layer with a mean visible optical thickness of 4.6 and a mean geometrical thickness of 5.4 km (mean volume extinction coefficient of 0.85 km-1). The ice-clouds were significantly heated by absorption of solar radiation in daytime. On the other hand, the mean effective emittance was estimated to be about 0.86 ± 0.37, showing that the frontal ice-clouds never acted as blackbody for longwave radiation. The lower parts of ice-cloud layers were heated by absorption of long-wave radiation from the surface and the atmosphere below the ice-clouds, while the upper parts were cooled by emission of longwave radiation to space. The shortwave and longwave heating profiles could make the daytime ice-cloud layers thermodynamically unstable. © 2004, Meteorological Society of Japan.

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Yoshida, Y., Asano, S., Yamamoto, A., Orikasa, N., & Yamazaki, A. (2004). Radiative properties of mid-latitude frontal ice-clouds observed by the shortwave and longwave radiometer-sondes. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 82(2), 639–656. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2004.639

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