Measurement : Cloud ice water
The concentration (mass/vol) of ice water particles in a cloud.
Categories
Cloud Properties,
Atmospheric State
Instruments
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- External Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- MMCR94-AIR : 94 GHz, W-band Airborne Cloud Radar
- CSI : Cloud Spectrometer and Impactor
- EC-CONVAIR580-BULK : Environment Canada Convair 580 Bulk Parameters
- ETA : Eta Model Runs
- ECMWFDIAG : European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Diagnostic Analyses
- ECMWF : European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Model Data
- AMSU-B-NOAA : NOAA Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B
- PRECIPRET : Precipitation Retrievals
- CITATION : University of North Dakota Citation Aircraft
Value-Added Products
- MICROBASE : Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval (Process)
- MICROBASEPIAVG : Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval, Profile-averaged
- MICROBASEPI : Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval, Profile-Instantaneous
- MICROBASEPI2 : Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval, Profile-Instantaneous, with QC flags
- RIPBE : Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate (Process)
- RIPBE1MCFARLANE : Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate profiles derived with first McFarlane algorithm
Datastreams
- RUC : Rapid Update Cycle Model Data Datastreams
- ALLRUC20HYBR : Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: hybrid analysis data, 20-km resolution
- ALLRUC40HYBR : Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: hybrid analyisis data, 40 km resolution
- RUC20HYBR : Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: daily hybrid analysis data, 20 km resolution
- MOLTS : Model Output Location Time Series Datastreams
- MOLTSEDASSFCCLASS0 : Model Output Loc. Time Ser. (MOLTS): EDAS meteor. analy., basic surface, params, stations
- MOLTSEDASSFCCLASS1 : Model Output Loc. Time Ser. (MOLTS): EDAS meteor. analy., enhanced surface, params, stations
- MOLTSEDASSNDCLASS1 : Model Output Loc. Time Ser. (MOLTS): EDAS meteor. analy., enhances soundings, params, stations
- ECMWFDIAG : European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Diagnostic Analyses Datastreams
- ECMWFVAR : ECMWF: model met. and cloud variables at altitude, entire coverage, 1-hr avg