T. Ackerman, B. Albrecht, M. A. Miller, E. Clothiaux, R. Peters, W. Syrett
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Abstract
Cloud Radar The difficulty and expense of carrying out in situ atmospheric measurements, especially for such temporally and spatially variable objects as clouds, has made ground-based remote sensing highly desirable. Active sensing by lidar has been employed for a number of years and has resulted in a substantial increase in our understanding of cloud structure and properties. Lidar, however, has its limitations. One of the most obvious is its attenuation in thicker clouds, which limits its ability to map clouds to those which are optically thin.