期刊
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
卷 9, 期 12, 页码 5911-5931出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-5911-2016
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [21244072, 22740306, 26220101, 26630448]
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) through the Steering Committee for Space Science (SCSS)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26220101, 21244072, 22740306, 26630448] Funding Source: KAKEN
A meteorological balloon-borne cloud sensor called the cloud particle sensor (CPS) has been developed. The CPS is equipped with a diode laser at similar to 790 nm and two photodetectors, with a polarization plate in front of one of the detectors, to count the number of particles per second and to obtain the cloud-phase information (i.e. liquid, ice, or mixed). The lower detection limit for particle size was evaluated in laboratory experiments as similar to 2 mu m diameter for water droplets. For the current model the output voltage often saturates for water droplets with diameter equal to or greater than similar to 80 mu m. The upper limit of the directly measured particle number concentration is similar to 2 cm(-3) (2 x 10(3) L-1), which is determined by the volume of the detection area of the instrument. In a cloud layer with a number concentration higher than this value, particle signal overlap and multiple scattering of light occur within the detection area, resulting in a counting loss, though a partial correction may be possible using the particle signal width data. The CPS is currently interfaced with either a Meisei RS-06G radiosonde or a Meisei RS-11G radiosonde that measures vertical profiles of temperature, relative humidity, height, pressure, and horizontal winds. Twenty-five test flights have been made between 2012 and 2015 at midlatitude and tropical sites. In this paper, results from four flights are discussed in detail. A simultaneous flight of two CPSs with different instrumental configurations confirmed the robustness of the technique. At a midlatitude site, a profile containing, from low to high altitude, water clouds, mixed-phase clouds, and ice clouds was successfully obtained. In the tropics, vertically thick cloud layers in the middle to upper troposphere and vertically thin cirrus layers in the upper troposphere were successfully detected in two separate flights. The data quality is much better at night, dusk, and dawn than during the daytime because strong sunlight affects the measurements of scattered light.
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