Overview of the HAIC “Space-borne Observation and Nowcasting of High Ice Water Content Regions” Sub-Project and Mid-Term Results
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The High Altitude Ice Crystals (HAIC) Sub-Project 3 (SP3) focuses on the detection of cloud regions with high ice water content (IWC) from current available remote sensing observations of space-based geostationary and low-orbit missions. The SP3 activities are aimed at supporting operationally the two up-coming HAIC flight campaigns (the first one in May 2015 in Cayenne, French Guyana; the second one in January 2016 in Darwin, Australia) and ultimately provide near real-time cloud monitoring to Air Traffic Management. More in detail the SP3 activities focus on the detection of high IWC from space-borne geostationary Meteosat daytime imagery, explore the synergy of concurrent multi-spectral multiple-technique observations from the low-orbit A-Train mission to identify specific signatures in high IWC cloud regions, and finally develop a satellite-based nowcasting tool to track and monitor convective systems over the Tropical Atlantic. The paper presents the HAIC SP3 objectives and provides an objective status of the sub-project at mid term of the HAIC project.
Authors
- Eric Defer - CNRS-LERMA
- Jean-Louis Brenguier - Meteo-France
- Jos De Laat - KNMI
- Julien Delanoe - CNRS-LATMOS
- Fabien Dezitter - Airbus
- Michael Faivre - CNRS-LERMA
- Amanda Gounou - Meteo-France
- Alice Grandin - Airbus
- Anthony Guignard - CNRS-LATMOS
- Jan Fokke Meirink - KNMI
- Jean-Marc Moisselin - Meteo-France
- Frederic Parol - CNRS-LOA
- Alain Protat - BoM
- Claudine Vanbauce - CNRS-LOA
Citation
Defer, E., Brenguier, J., De Laat, J., Delanoe, J. et al., "Overview of the HAIC “Space-borne Observation and Nowcasting of High Ice Water Content Regions” Sub-Project and Mid-Term Results," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-2123, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2123.Also In
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