Cloud Studies Using an Airborne Millimeter-Wavelength Radar

9320672麦金托什这项研究的目标是在怀俄明州国王航空大学部署一台机载多普勒偏振95 GHz(3.2毫米)雷达，以描述云中水物质的微物理结构和演化。在第一年，雷达将参与WISP实验(科罗拉多州中部)，该实验旨在探索静止(波)云中冰和过冷水的分布和演化。在第二年和第三年将确定更多的实地试验。新的测量应该会提供区分水和冰的新技术，测量卷云中冰晶的垂直运动，或许还会提供一种估计晶体栖息地的方法。***

9320672 McIntosh The objective of this research is the deployment of an airborne doppler polarimetric 95 GHz (3.2 mm) radar on the University of Wyoming King Air for the purpose of depicting the microphysical structure and evolution of water substance in clouds. During the first year, the radar will participate in the WISP experiment (Central Colorado) which is designed to explore the distribution and evolution of ice and supercooled water in stationary (wave) clouds. Additional field experiments will be identified during the second and third years. The new measurements should provide new techniques to discriminate between water and ice, measure the vertical motion of ice crystals in cirrus clouds and perhaps a means of estimating crystal habitat. ***