Combining In-situ Measurements, Passive Satellite Imagery, and Active Radar Retrievals for the Detection of High Ice Water Content

Mr. Christopher R Yost, MS, Atmospheric Sciences1, Patrick Minnis2, Kristopher M Bedka3, Louis Nguyen4, Rabindra Palikonda5, Douglas Spangenberg5, J Walter Strapp6, Julien Delanoƫ7 and Alain Protat8, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, United States, (5)Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Met Analytics Inc., Aurora, ON, Canada, (7)LATMOS, UVSQ, IPSL, CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (8)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia