Ice Cloud Imager
Research Project, 2014
– 2016
Sub-millimetre wavelengths offer some distinct advantages for sounding of cloud ice properties. This is basically an unused possibility to improve numerical weather prediction (NWP) and atmospheric modelling. For example, our limited understanding of ice cloud processes is a main source of uncertainty for current climate predictions. However, a dedicated satellite sensor is now planned, the Ice Cloud Imager (ICI) that will be launched as part of Europe's next generation of polar orbiting weater satellite suite (Metop-SG). The overall objective of the project is to advance the data analysis associated with sub-millimetre cloud ice observations, with a special attention to making the ICI mission as successful as possible. This effort is part of a long-term undertaking to promote the observation technique. The contributions are of general nature, and are relevant for instrument design studies, NWP and climate applications. Initially, the project focuses on the airborne prototype instrument. This International SubMillimetre Airborne Radiometer (ISMAR) is being developed by the UK Met Office and is co-funded by ESA.
Participants
Patrick Eriksson (contact)
Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling
Collaborations
European Space Agency (ESA)
Paris, France
Luleå University of Technology
Luleå, Sweden
Met Office
Exeter, United Kingdom
SMHI
Norrköping, Sweden
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Funding
Swedish National Space Board
Project ID: 142/13
Funding Chalmers participation during 2014–2016
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
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