Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics
Abstract This study proposes a methodology for analyzing the precipitation process in mixed‐phase clouds using multisensor satellite data, including radar, lidar, and imager. By leveraging a specific multivariate statistic, we elucidate the vertical microphysical structures of mixed‐phase clouds and...
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| description | Abstract This study proposes a methodology for analyzing the precipitation process in mixed‐phase clouds using multisensor satellite data, including radar, lidar, and imager. By leveraging a specific multivariate statistic, we elucidate the vertical microphysical structures of mixed‐phase clouds and their transitions associated with cloud particle growth and phase change. Expanding upon previous warm rain process diagnostics, we integrate cloud thermodynamic phase information from lidar and imager, representing the phase near the cloud top and column, respectively, to classify the vertical microphysical structures obtained from radar. Our global composite analysis reveals a systematic transition from non‐precipitating to precipitating characteristics with increasing ice phase fraction of the cloud column, rather than near the cloud top, and increasing cloud‐top particle size. These findings offer valuable observational references for evaluating numerical models in precipitation physics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-72fdff2cb60a4e5f9de1004b1a8f054f2025-08-20T02:06:00ZengWileyGeophysical Research Letters0094-82761944-80072024-12-015123n/an/a10.1029/2024GL110573Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process StatisticsKentaroh Suzuki0Takashi M. Nagao1Aya Murai2Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo Kashiwa JapanAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo Kashiwa JapanAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo Kashiwa JapanAbstract This study proposes a methodology for analyzing the precipitation process in mixed‐phase clouds using multisensor satellite data, including radar, lidar, and imager. By leveraging a specific multivariate statistic, we elucidate the vertical microphysical structures of mixed‐phase clouds and their transitions associated with cloud particle growth and phase change. Expanding upon previous warm rain process diagnostics, we integrate cloud thermodynamic phase information from lidar and imager, representing the phase near the cloud top and column, respectively, to classify the vertical microphysical structures obtained from radar. Our global composite analysis reveals a systematic transition from non‐precipitating to precipitating characteristics with increasing ice phase fraction of the cloud column, rather than near the cloud top, and increasing cloud‐top particle size. These findings offer valuable observational references for evaluating numerical models in precipitation physics.https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110573cloudprecipitationsatellite observationmicrophysicsphase transition |
| spellingShingle | Kentaroh Suzuki Takashi M. Nagao Aya Murai Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics Geophysical Research Letters cloud precipitation satellite observation microphysics phase transition |
| title | Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics |
| title_full | Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics |
| title_fullStr | Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics |
| title_short | Satellite‐Based Diagnostics of Precipitation Process in Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Extension From Warm Rain Process Statistics |
| title_sort | satellite based diagnostics of precipitation process in mixed phase clouds extension from warm rain process statistics |
| topic | cloud precipitation satellite observation microphysics phase transition |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110573 |
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