Remote sensing techniques of the Wave Propagation Laboratory for the measurement of supercooled liquid water: applications to aircraft icing

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• Personal Author:
  Westwater, E. R. ; Kropfli, R. A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Wave Propagation Laboratory
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  For over twenty years, the Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) has developed a variety of remote sensing techniques applicable to cloud studies. We restrict our attention here to clouds with the potential to cause aircraft icing, i.e., clouds containing supercooled liquid water (SLW). We review existing and potential capabilities of modern ground-based remote sensors that are being developed and operated at WPL because such remote sensors can help with the solution of the aircraft icing problem. Although some WPL instruments have been components of cloud physics experiments for several years, new concepts, instruments, and combinations of instruments described here can make important contributions to both icing hazard research and to operations. We first identify
  
  important meteorological parameters, atmospheric mechanisms, and areas of need for the solution of the icing problem. We then show how these needs can be addressed by remote sensors.
• Subjects:
  • Water vapor, Atmospheric
  • Icing (Meteorology)
  • Remote sensing
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum ERL WPL 163
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/32537/noaa_32537_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.74 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:378f3b0b89f81d2e60fcb8da3ce8113b90746f521c941f4d98c6db09c01e48a4